Marc- That’s mostly a Java VM deal. Google around, but there are ways to get a handle to the ManagementFactory within memory. I believe you’d have to play around with the startup parameters to enable the Management Bean, but not enable the TCP/IP port.
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/lang/management/ManagementFactory.html -Matt On Sep 4, 2014, at 3:50 PM, Marc Boorshtein <mboorsht...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have a system that uses activemq 5.8 as an embedded message queue (using > KahaDB). I'd like to expose some basic management functions via JMX but I > don't want to open a tcp/ip port. Can I craft a JMX URL similar to how I > create a connection factory (ActiveMQConnectionFactory cf = new > ActiveMQConnectionFactory("vm://localhost/local");) so that I don't have > any open ports? > > Thanks > Marc