I have one general question that a Developer has posed to me in the last week concerning debugging applications in WebSphere. Specifically this is around using the debug port (default 7777) to attach a debugger from eclipse or some other tool.  

I did set it up according to these instructions:
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSRTLW_8.5.1/com.ibm.debug.wsa.doc/topics/tbwowasd.html

However, it doesn’t seem to be working for her.
It is in a clustered environment, so I shutdown 2 of the three servers, and just added the debug port to the one and restarted it. I see the port is being listened on but it doesn’t work (that is all I have gotten out of her).
I have a sandbox area where I can set it up using a single server (no cluster) and I think I may do that.

I was wondering if anyone in this community has any experience or thoughts on anything like that.

Thanks
Eric

Hi Eric,

  I only can share the next link,

 Remote Debugging with Eclipse + WebSphere 7

  https://www.mkyong.com/websphere/remote-debugging-with-eclipse-websphere-7/

  can you get more details or logs? are you seeing any type of connections (from the client/debugger) at WAS side?

  Hope this helps. Tell us if you need more support 

Regards

Hi Gabriel. Sorry for the late reply. I have been busy on other items demanding my attention.  Thank you for the link.  the developer told me she just failed to connect to the port. I could see the port was being listened to but there is a load balancer in front of the cluster.  I have decided just create a standalone server so she can do the testing she needs. I appreciate the information and will review that as well.

Eric