Most issues installing the Java Agent on JBoss result from conflicts between startup arguments. That is, settings you add for the Java Agent may be overridden or conflict in other ways with existing arguments. Such issues are not always easy to detect.

The best way to begin troubleshoot such startup issues is to print and inspect the startup arguments that JBoss actually gets when attempting to start. To do this, view JBoss process information during startup using the following command. You need to issue this command while the start up attempt is occurring but before it fails.

ps -ef | grep [o]rg.jbossas | tr ' ' '\n' | sed -e '/^$/d'