WebSphere Liberty profile and Intellij: JMX administration should be enable

Question

Is anyone running the WebSphere 8.5.0.1 Liberty Profile from inside Intellij 12?

I have added a WebSphere Server Run Configuration, but all I get is:

Error running WebSphere 8.5.0.1: JMX administration should be enabled

I can understand the error, but am not sure how to solve this within Intellij. I added server.xml inside WebSphere to say:

<featureManager>
    <feature>localConnector-1.0</feature>
</featureManager>

But I am not sure Intellij is even reading this config file.

If anyone has this working, please tell me how. Thanks.

Answer 1

To make it possible for IDEA to administrate WebSphere LP with JMX, you should specify in the server.xml:

<applicationMonitor updateTrigger="mbean" />

in addition to the fragment you've already specified:

<featureManager>
    <feature>localConnector-1.0</feature>
</featureManager>

Actually, IDEA is able to make both changes for you -- you should just press the Fix button next to the JMX administration should be enabled message in the run configuration.

Answer 2

If you don't see the "fix" button or you don't see the server you created in the drop down menu, it is likely a permissions issue.

If you are on your local box and don't really care about giving access to that folder:

chmod -R a+wrx /opt/IBM/WebSphere/Liberty/