thanks, Dejan! putting my broker's name in your example query (in place of "localhost") worked. i'll followup a bit more once we actually start monitoring.
Joe Niski IS Development | NWEA PHONE 503.212.3382 | FAX 503.639.7873 NWEA.ORG<3D%22http://www.nwea.org/%22> | Partnering to Help All Kids Learn On 10/25/2010 02:12 AM, Dejan Bosanac wrote: Hi Joe, you should use something like this for the objectName org.apache.activemq:BrokerName=localhost,Type=Broker You can see those names in JConsole (when positioning on the appropriate object). BTW. I didn't use Nagios with ActiveMQ, would love to hear your experience. Cheers -- Dejan Bosanac