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Installing VisualVM Plugins
The previous figure shows MBeans and JConsole Plugins as tabs in VisualVM. These tabs are necessary to bring the VisualVM JMX management and monitoring capabilities on par with the JConsole capabilities, but are not actually present until you install the plugins for them.
To install these plugins (and others as desired), do the following:
1. Select Plugins from the Tools menu.
2. Check VisualVM-JConsole and VisualVM-MBeans from the Available Plugins tab.
3. Select Install and complete the installation process as prompted.
After installing VisualVM-JConsole on a Windchill server, you can add the plugin that is in the WtJmxPlugin.jar file (which adds the Windchill tab to the user interface) using the following steps:
1. Select Tools > Options > JConsole Plugins > Add JAR/Folder.
2. Select WtJmxPlugin.jar from the <Windchill>/codebase/lib directory, where <Windchill> is the Windchill installation directory.
If you are using VisualVM remotely, you can download the WtJmxPlugin.jar file from your Windchill server to the remote server and then select the file on your local server.
After completing this action, VisualVM loads the plugin each time it starts. When loaded, go to the JConsole Plugins tab in VisualVM to access plugins. For additional information about the Windchill tab, see Windchill Tab Information.