Thanks for the suggestion however I attempted that already with the following results: -bash-3.00$ ./shutdown.sh -S -s XX.XX.XX.200:1099 Exception in thread "main" java.lang.SecurityException: Failed to authenticate principal=null, securityDomain=jmx-console at org.jboss.jmx.connector.invoker.AuthenticationInterceptor.invoke(AuthenticationInterceptor.java:97) at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.invoke(Invocation.java:88) -bash-3.00$ ps -ef | grep jboss webadmin 28793 28768 0 Jul16 ? 00:00:58 /usr/local/java/bin/java -Dprogram.name=run.sh -server -Xms128m -Xmx512m -Dsun.rmi.dgc.client.gcInterval=3600000 -Dsun.rmi.dgc.server.gcInterval=3600000 -Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true -Djava.endorsed.dirs=/usr/local/jboss/jboss-as/lib/endorsed -classpath /usr/local/jboss/jboss-as/bin/run.jar:/usr/local/java/lib/tools.jar org.jboss.Main -c project1 -b X.X.XX.200 Where "project1" is just a copy of $JBOSS_HOME/server/default. Thanks View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4165119#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...