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I'm currently writing an app to monitor another Java process and take specific actions when certain targets are hit. For example, if a thread deadlocks for a certain time, kill the thread, if the memory usage goes over a specific amount, send email alerts and kill the process, etc.
My app will run as a stand-alone app, monitoring specific other apps (locally, though from what I can see remote or local makes no difference here).
I'm monitoring the external JVMs via MXBeans, but cannot see a clean way to kill the external process short of a system call like 'kill -9 ' (I'm working in UNIX by the way).
Is there any way to kill a JVM through the MXBean interfaces?
Graham
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In your application implement a shutdown hook. When you want to shut down your JVM gracefully, install a Java Agent that calls System. exit() using the Attach API.
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Sure. Implement an MBean on the target server that calls System.exit(), and invoke that as a JMX operation from the client.
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