How do I create and then manage a new instance using jolokia? I can execute the commands on my root instance to create and start a new instance fine. On create I specify that I want "jolokia" as a feature.
Fundamentally, in order to manage the second instance I have to connect directly to it don't I? This is fine with the RMI, as I get the opportunity to set the ports on instance creation. Despite the instance name being in the Mbean object names (the "name=[instance]" bit), I can't connect to the root instance and control the second instance simply by setting "name=second" (doesn't work anyway). So I'm going to need to set the HTTP port on the second instance to something other than default, otherwise I won't be able to connect, the second instance will attempt to bind to 8181, and then fail. I seem to have two ways I might be able to influence the new instance. The first is that I have the opportunity to pass in startup options when the instance is started. Can I influence the port that way? These are presumably java system options, but I'm not aware you can set OSGi configuration from system options can you? Or indeed that the HTTP service will pick up a specific system option? The second opportunity seems to be that on creating the instance, I can pass in feature URLs and features to install. Presumably I could pass in the URL of a feature XML file that contains a feature that just has configuration settings in it. But in order to do this, I have to have created that feature XML file though and have in a location that is addressable by a URL from the machine on which Karaf is running, I can't just pass the information in easily. Are there any other ways of achieving this that I've missed? Thanks for any input.
