Monitoring application running multiple servers. Is JMX a good choice?

Hello,
I am looking for a framework to make a monitoring application. Right now, I am looking at JMX which seems very interesting but I am not sure to understand everything totally.
I need to check several information and to do so, I need to ask several servers. Log errors on some, stat files on other and so on. Maybe also make a wrapper with a Python application.
So my question is : Is JMX a good option ?
At the moment, nothing is implemented.
Thanks for your advices.
Romain

i'm not sure i understand your question completely.
if you are asking "will jmx work for all my applications, including non-java ones", then the answer is no. jmx is a java specific framework. however, jmx enabled java applications could be monitored as part of a larger application management system. there are jmx to snmp bridges which would enable your jmx management features to be used through snmp capable tools (where snmp is a management tool which is not language specific). also, some management utilities have "plugins" which know how to talk different protocols, where there is probably a good chance that jmx is supported.
basically, jmx is probably the best choice for your java based services. you will need to find another way to monitor your non-java services. once you put all those pieces together, you will need to find a monitoring tool which can "talk" to the different services in the protocols that they support.
long answer, short: jmx is a great building block, but it is not the entire solution if you are integrating non-java based services.
Edited by: jtahlborn on Mar 1, 2011 11:32 AM

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