1. Setup two hosts 2. Make sure tcp connection between them works 3. run tcpdump -i host and 'tcp[13] & 2!=0' on host 1 4. run ${TESTJAVA}/bin/java -server JMXStartStopDoSomething \ -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.port=50234 \ -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.rmi.port=50235 \ -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.authenticate=false \ -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.ssl=false on host2 5. run jconsole on host1 6. connect jconsole to host2:50234 Make sure jconsole works Make sure only host2.50234 and host2.50235 appears in tcpdump output.