One commonly requested feature over the years have been to be able to bind the management agent to a specific interface. Today I got an e-mail from a customer requesting it yet again:

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Hi Marcus,

Congratulation with the MissionControl release, we are lookng forward to start using it.

I hope that you at some point get the time to help me with my problem:

We have experienced when starting the JMX agent starts to listen 0.0.0.0:7091 and thus blocks the start of other JVMs on the same server node. Which setting should I use to restrict a JMX agent to only listen on a specific IP. My goal it to have multiple JMX agents (one for each JVM) running on port 7091 on a server node, e.g.:
JMX agent for JVM1: IP1:7091
JMX agent for JVM2: IP2:7091
etc.
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It shouldn't be that hard to support this. Add another command line option and hack the RMI server socket factories.

(On a historic note, the old RMP management server in JRockit 1.4 and before supported this.)