Question

Does the JMX interface in JBoss AS 6.1 or 7, or a web admin console area, offer some basic values like total request count? Or is there logging of HTTP requests which only needs to be enabled so I can get standard web server log files?

Answer 1

In case of JBoss 6 (and also 5) you can turn on logging information about incoming connections. You have to edit server.xml file in the profile/deploy/jbossweb.sar directory and uncomment these line:

<!-- Access logger -->

<Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve"
       prefix="localhost_access_log." suffix=".log"
       pattern="common" directory="${jboss.server.log.dir}" 
       resolveHosts="false" />

These allow you to turn on logging in Apache Web Server format.