Spring-boot: Using VisualVM to connect via JMX

[hoeckxer]

I'm trying to get my head around how the JMX connection of spring boot works. I've gone through all documentation I could find, but I still don't really understand how it works. From what I can tell, JMX is enabled by default, and I can connect to the VM using VisualVM on the same machine.
When I set the property spring.jmx.enabled to false, I can still connect to the VM? I would've expected this to not be the case.
I'm trying to setup a connection to a remote VM, but I'm not sure which port I should use to connect to it, as I can't find it in the documentation. My ultimate goal is to be able to specifically set the JMX port, since I'm within a corporate environment, and the ports that we can use are fairly limited. From what I understand of JMX, it finds a dynamic port when you connect. Because of firewalls this isn't acceptable, so I tried to follow these instructions on stackflow:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/29412072/how-to-access-spring-boot-jmx-remotely

They don't seem to have any effect (which makes sense, since it's an old post), but can somebody tell me how to achieve the same goal?

[snicoll]

Thanks for getting in touch, but it feels like this is a question that would be better suited to Stack Overflow. As mentioned in the guidelines for contributing, we prefer to use GitHub issues only for bugs and enhancements. Feel free to update this issue with a link to the re-posted question (so that other people can find it) or add some more details if you feel this is a genuine bug.

(This has nothing to do with Spring Boot. If you want to connect via JMX to a remote instance, you need to configure the VM with additional properties. Checking the official doc should help).

[mhaefele]

To be fair, there are springboot docs here: http://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/current/reference/html/production-ready-jmx.html

Is there a chance to add more information to those? (maybe the same official doc as above?)