Start Glassfish Domain with java agent attached

Question

For some monitoring purposes I need to start Glassfish domain with custom java agent attached. If I start domain directly with command:

java -cp /path/to/glassfish3/glassfish/modules/glassfish.jar com.sun.enterprise.glassfish.bootstrap.ASMain bla-bla-bla -javaagent:/path/to/agent.jar

it works as expected.

But how to do the same with domain, which starts with asadmin? I've tried asadmin create-jvm-options and asadmin create-system-properties - it didn't help me. Any ideas?

The `create-jvm-options` should be working. What does `list-jvm-options`say to you? Have you restasted the domain? — gaborsch, Apr 06 '13 at 18:31
Actually I don't have a GF instance in front of me, but you can check the startup scripts of the Glassfish, probably there is an environment variabla e.g. `JAVA_OPTS` or similar where you can set it. — gaborsch, Apr 06 '13 at 18:34
You can try to make a wrapper then, and you can set your agent jar in that. — gaborsch, Apr 06 '13 at 18:40

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 06 '13 at 18:43

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Try restarting the domain.

If you set anything JVM-related, that will not be effective until you restart the domain. The GF Admin Console also warns about it it you do it on the web UI.

The asadmin docs also warns about it.

answered Apr 06 '13 at 18:43

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