Wants to start Jconsole with Weblogic 9.2  on Solaris 10

I wants to start JConsole with weblogic on Solaris 10 machine. I have added the following parameters in the startup script of the weblogic
-Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.port=7099 -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.authenticate=false -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.ssl=false
But while running "netstat -an" command, found that 7099 port is not listening.
TIA,
Tarun.

Hi Tarun,
A quick Google search on "weblogic jconsole" led me to this article :
http://e-docs.bea.com/wls/docs90/jmxinst/accesscust.html#1107229
It looks like you will need to use JMXServiceURL to connect to WebLogic Server's MBean Server.
Hope this helps
-Prashant

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