Adding -javaagent to Tomcat 6 server, where do I put it and in what format?

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I´m trying to install an application health monitoring application that can monitor J2EE web transactions and I need to put a javaagent into my Tomcat somehow but am not clear on exactly how to do this, I am using Linux and have been instructed by the software company that makes this product to do something like below: ``` -javaagent:<Path to the WebTransactionAgent.jar> ``` I have received further support from them and they basically said to put this into the appropriate .sh file (but they weren´t able to tell me which file that is for Tomcat) I tried putting this in the catalina.sh file but it does not seem to be working: ``` JAVA_OPTS=%JAVA_OPTS% -Xms128m -Xmx512m -XX:MaxPermSize=256m -javaagent:"C:\WebTransactionAgent.jar" ``` Any advice is appreciated

Accepted Answer

For Unix/Linux, do this in `<tomcat_home>/bin/setenv.sh`, e.g.

```
CATALINA_OPTS="$CATALINA_OPTS -javaagent:/path/to/YourJar.jar"
```

You might need to create this file if not present and `chmod` it to `711` or `755`.

For Windows, the counterpart is `setenv.bat`.

Adding -javaagent to Tomcat 6 server, where do I put it and in what format?

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