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.