To monitor a remote Java application with VisualVM is easy when we use jstatd. We need to start jstatd on the remote machine, make a connection from VisualVM to the remote machine and we can monitor all running Java applications.
Sample security policy file:
grant codebase "file:${java.home}/../lib/tools.jar" {
permission java.security.AllPermission;
};
We can run jstatd with:
$ jstatd -J-Djava.security.policy=jstatd.all.policy
