configure your jvm to allow jmx monitoring. How do you know if you can do this? You can use the sun jconsole utility that comes with the jdk and point it at your machine running the jvm. If you can connect connect, you are good. In my tomcat environment, I enable it by setting the following options for the jvm: 307 -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote \ -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.port=xxxxx \ -Dcom.sun.management lang:type=Threading' where the jmx username and password are the ones defined in the file defined in the jvm options above, the qry string is the one obtained from jconsole. The output from this will be all