Starting a JRockit Management Console is quite easy—simply select the JVM to connect to from the JVM Browser and either click on the Management Console button from the toolbar, or click on Start Console from the context menu.

There is a trick available for starting the console—connections can be dragged and dropped into the editor area. The default action for dragging a connection to the editor area is to open up the Console on the connection. Recollect from Chapter 6, JRockit Mission Control, that connections are either remote or local—the difference being that the local connections are automatically discovered JVMs running on the local machine. This particular trick does not work with local connections, as they cannot be used as sources in drag-and-drop operations.

For more information on the different types of connections and how to establish remote connections, see the previous chapter.