I did the following: I disabling Authentication for JMX Invoker by commenting out the security interceptor passthrough: server/$CONFIG/deploy/jmx-invoker-service.xml Located the mbean section with the class org.jboss.jmx.connector.invoker.InvokerAdaptorService. In that section comment out the line that relates to authenticated users: <!-- Uncomment to require authenticated users --> <!-- Interceptor that deals with non-serializable results --> Started back up the JBOSS default instance on a IP address aliases...gave it sometime to start up then did the following: ./shutdown.sh -S -s X.X.X.200 tailing the later I received a "shutdown complete" Halting VM. So it seemed to work...Being new here to JBoss what if any are the ramifications? Is this the recommended way to go? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4165172#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...