I would like to test my kafka cluster on a single machine for testing purposes.
As such I have created 3 config files, server.properties, server2.properties and server3.properties. Each server config file has a port that is one higher than the previous one (8182, 8183, 8184). To set JMX's port I am using the following to run the server: env JMX_PORT=10000 && bin/kafka-server-start.sh config/server2.properties This results in the following output: https://gist.github.com/3967703 As you can see, after some initialization, it throws a: Error: Exception thrown by the agent : java.rmi.server.ExportException: Port already in use: 9999; nested exception is: java.net.BindException: Address already in use Regards, Tom