External JMX client cannot connect to MBeanServer

[#1]

Hi there,

I'm trying to get an external JMX client to connect to a SAP Web AS ABAP+Java 640 (Unicode, SP 9).

My first problem was that I couldn't find the file

client.jar as written in "Compile and Run your Client" of

the JMX Service Interface documentation. I could solve the

"class not found" problems by using sapj2eeclient.jar, so

I think the file has just been renamed.

I then tried to run the following code, which has been

taken more or less from the "Connecting to an MBeanServer"

example.

import java.util.Properties;
 
import javax.management.MBeanServerConnection;
import javax.management.ObjectName;
import javax.naming.Context;
 
import com.sap.jmx.ObjectNameFactory;
import com.sap.jmx.remote.JmxConnectionFactory;
 
 
public class Client {
    
  public Client(
  ) { 
  }
  
  private void run(
  ) {
    try {
      Properties props = new Properties();
      
      props.setProperty(Context.INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY, "com.sap.engine.services.jndi.InitialContextFactoryImpl");
      props.setProperty(Context.SECURITY_PRINCIPAL, "J2EE_ADMIN");
      props.setProperty(Context.SECURITY_CREDENTIALS, "password");
      props.setProperty(Context.PROVIDER_URL, "my-server:50004");
      
      MBeanServerConnection mbsc = null;
      
      mbsc = JmxConnectionFactory.getMBeanServerConnection(
                JmxConnectionFactory.PROTOCOL_ENGINE_P4, props);
      
      String path = "Root/Services/Memory/AllocatedMemory";
      
      ObjectName name = null;
      
      name = ObjectNameFactory.getNameForMonitorPerNode(
                ObjectName.quote(path), null, null);
      System.out.println("ObjectName: " + name.getCanonicalName());
      
      Integer value = (Integer)mbsc.invoke(name, "getValue", null, null);    
      System.out.println("Value: " + value);
    }
    catch(Exception ex) {
      ex.printStackTrace();
    }
  }
  
  public static void main(
    String[] args
  ) {
        new Client().run();
  }
}

Unfortunately, I get the following error:

com.sap.engine.services.jmx.exception.JmxConnectorException: Unable to connect to connector server.
	at com.sap.engine.services.jmx.connector.p4.P4ConnectorClient.<init>(P4ConnectorClient.java:96)
	at com.sap.engine.services.jmx.connector.p4.ConnectorFactory.getJmxConnector(ConnectorFactory.java:31)
	at com.sap.jmx.remote.JmxConnectionFactory.getConnector(JmxConnectionFactory.java:191)
	at com.sap.jmx.remote.JmxConnectionFactory.getMBeanServerConnection(JmxConnectionFactory.java:92)
	at Client.run(Client.java:29)
	at Client.main(Client.java:51)
Caused by: com.sap.engine.services.jndi.persistent.exceptions.NamingException: Exception while trying to get InitialContext. [Root exception is com.sap.engine.services.security.exceptions.BaseLoginException: Cannot create new RemoteLoginContext instance.]
	at com.sap.engine.services.jndi.InitialContextFactoryImpl.getInitialContext(InitialContextFactoryImpl.java:538)
	at javax.naming.spi.NamingManager.getInitialContext(NamingManager.java:662)
	at javax.naming.InitialContext.getDefaultInitCtx(InitialContext.java:243)
	at javax.naming.InitialContext.init(InitialContext.java:219)
	at javax.naming.InitialContext.<init>(InitialContext.java:195)
	at com.sap.engine.services.jmx.connector.p4.P4ConnectorClient.<init>(P4ConnectorClient.java:69)
	... 5 more
Caused by: com.sap.engine.services.security.exceptions.BaseLoginException: Cannot create new RemoteLoginContext instance.
	at com.sap.engine.services.security.remote.login.RemoteLoginContext.<init>(RemoteLoginContext.java:98)
	at com.sap.engine.services.jndi.implclient.LoginHelper.clientSideLogin(LoginHelper.java:78)
	at com.sap.engine.services.jndi.InitialContextFactoryImpl.getInitialContext(InitialContextFactoryImpl.java:402)
	... 10 more
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
	at com.sap.engine.services.security.remote.RemoteSecurity_Stub.getRemoteLoginContext(RemoteSecurity_Stub.java:678)
	at com.sap.engine.services.security.remote.login.RemoteLoginContext.<init>(RemoteLoginContext.java:93)
	... 12 more

Am I doing something wrong? Any help or hint would be

greatly appreciated.

Regards, Bernd

[Former Member]

Hi Vladimir

thanks for your reply.

The real server name is called sap-640-sapdb and I called with the correct server name

(I have just changed password and server in the example code).

It was up and running, of course.

I could make it work, but only if my Client class is running localy on sap-640-sapdb.

I could not make it work to run remotely from my PC. I get the exception:

Caused by: java.rmi.ServerException: The server, that the client is connected with, isn't working.
The object is not redirectable!

Meanwhile I have installed a complete SAP NetWeaver Dev. Environment on my PC.

I get exactly the same error message, when I want to connect with Visual Administrator installed with the J2EE instance on my Windows PC to the J2EE instance running on the Linux box sap-640-sapdb.

Isn't it possible to use P4 protocol remotely?

Thanks, Bernd

[Former Member]

Hi Bernd

I am successful in using a JMX client remotely for logging the HTTP session data from SAP WebAS 710 release. I have done this in the context of monitoring the number of HTTP sessions to correlate with Memory utilized on WebAS.

The piece of code that I wrote is more or less similar to what you posted in the thread here.

If you would like to have a look at it, just let me know so that I can mail it to your id.

Thanks and Regards

Madhu

[Former Member]

Hi Madhu:

I find the same problem. Can you mail your code to me?

My email is : [email protected]

Thank you very much!

Best regards.

Garf

[hans_harder]

Hi Madhu, Garf

I have same problem, can you mail it also to me ?

My email is : [email protected]

Thanks

hans

[Former Member]

Hi Madhu,

I am using SAP WAS 6.4. I am having problems in connecting from a remote JMX client to obtain the metrics. Can you please email me your code?

My email-id is [email protected].

Thanks and Regards,

Sridhar Raj