<p>It seems that I've never got this to work in the past. Currently, I KNOW it doesn't work.</p>

<p>But we start up our Java process:</p>

<pre><code>-Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote
-Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.port=6002
-Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.authenticate=false
-Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.ssl=false
</code></pre>

<p>I can telnet to the port, and "something is there" (that is, if I don't start the process, nothing answers, but if I do, it does), but I can not get JConsole to work filling in the IP and port.</p>

<p>Seems like it should be so simple, but no errors, no noise, no nothing. Just doesn't work.</p>

<p>Anyone know the hot tip for this?</p>

Are you running on Linux? Perhaps the management agent is binding to localhost:
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/guide/management/faq.html#linux1