Starting remote sessions

To start your application or application server in such a way that you can connect to it with a remote session from JProfiler's GUI front end, the following steps are required:

Windows 98/NT/2000/XP
1. Adjust your startup command
  Add the following command line parameters to your startup command:
  - -Xrunjprofiler
  - -Xbootclasspath/a:{JProfiler install directory}/bin/agent.jar
  - other JVM-specific options found in the remote session invocation table
2. Adjust PATH
  Add {JProfiler install directory}\bin\windows to the PATH environment variable.
Linux and Solaris
1. Adjust your startup command
  Add the following command line parameters to your startup command:
  - -Xrunjprofiler
  - -Xbootclasspath/a:{JProfiler install directory}\bin\agent.jar
  - other JVM-specific options found in the remote session invocation table
2. Adjust LD_LIBRARY_PATH
  Add {JProfiler install directory}/bin/{linux-x86 | solaris-sparc} to the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable.
Mac OS
1. Adjust your startup command
  Add the following command line parameters to your startup command:
  - -Xrunjprofiler
  - -Xbootclasspath/a:{JProfiler install directory}\bin\agent.jar
  - other JVM-specific options found in the remote session invocation table
2. Adjust DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH
  Add {JProfiler install directory}/bin/macos to the DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable.

The remote session invocation table shows the complete command for all supported JVMs.