Glassfish 3.1.2 JMS Random Ports

Today one of our customers notified me when they restart glassfish instance some of jms ports were changed to random ports. This causes to JMS applications does not work since there are strict network and firewall regulations. They were updating network firewall rules but after each restart of glassfish instance, firewall settings were invalid.

$ netstat -anp|grep LISTEN
(Not all processes could be identified, non-owned process info
 will not be shown, you would have to be root to see it all.)
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:25            0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      -
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:10112           0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      -
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:49160           0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      -
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:111             0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      -
tcp6       0      0 :::3700                 :::*                    LISTEN      22423/java
tcp6       0      0 :::8181                 :::*                    LISTEN      22423/java
tcp6       0      0 ::1:25                  :::*                    LISTEN      -
tcp6       0      0 10.21.0.113:7676        :::*                    LISTEN      22423/java
tcp6       0      0 :::57598                :::*                    LISTEN      -
tcp6       0      0 :::40607                :::*                    LISTEN      22423/java
tcp6       0      0 :::7776                 :::*                    LISTEN      22423/java
tcp6       0      0 :::10112                :::*                    LISTEN      -
tcp6       0      0 :::60737                :::*                    LISTEN      22423/java
tcp6       0      0 :::3820                 :::*                    LISTEN      22423/java
tcp6       0      0 :::8686                 :::*                    LISTEN      22423/java
tcp6       0      0 :::46575                :::*                    LISTEN      22423/java
tcp6       0      0 :::111                  :::*                    LISTEN      -
tcp6       0      0 :::3920                 :::*                    LISTEN      22423/java
tcp6       0      0 :::51952                :::*                    LISTEN      22423/java
tcp6       0      0 :::4848                 :::*                    LISTEN      22423/java
tcp6       0      0 :::8080                 :::*                    LISTEN      22423/java
unix  2      [ ACC ]     STREAM     LISTENING     2820     -                   /run/lvm/lvmetad.socket
unix  2      [ ACC ]     SEQPACKET  LISTENING     2823     -                   /run/udev/control
unix  2      [ ACC ]     STREAM     LISTENING     2826     -                   /run/systemd/journal/stdout
unix  2      [ ACC ]     STREAM     LISTENING     12388    -                   /run/rpcbind.sock
unix  2      [ ACC ]     STREAM     LISTENING     382      -                   /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket
unix  2      [ ACC ]     STREAM     LISTENING     385      -                   /run/acpid.socket
unix  2      [ ACC ]     STREAM     LISTENING     2796     -                   /run/systemd/private

       
 

Here you can see 22423 is pid of glassfish instance. 3700 - 8181 - 7676 - 8686 - 3920 - 4848 - 8080 are ports defined in admin interface and domain.xml. However still there are random ports for glassfish instance even there is no declaration in neither asadmin instance nor domain.xml. After a bit googling thanks to "http://www.randombugs.com/java/glassfish/changeing-defaults-ports-jms-glassfish.html" we have fixed random ports with setting "Start Arguments" of Java Message Service Tab with values:

-Dimq.jms.tcp.port=37000 -Dimq.ssljms.tls.port=37001 -Dimq.admin.tcp.port=37002 -Dimq.ssladmin.tls.port=37003
     

After several restarts we approved that ports were fixed to values.

~$ netstat -anp|grep LISTEN|grep 27129
(Not all processes could be identified, non-owned process info
 will not be shown, you would have to be root to see it all.)
tcp6       0      0 :::3700                 :::*                    LISTEN      27129/java
tcp6       0      0 :::8181                 :::*                    LISTEN      27129/java
tcp6       0      0 10.21.0.113:7676        :::*                    LISTEN      27129/java
tcp6       0      0 :::7776                 :::*                    LISTEN      27129/java
tcp6       0      0 :::37000                :::*                    LISTEN      27129/java
tcp6       0      0 :::37002                :::*                    LISTEN      27129/java
tcp6       0      0 :::3820                 :::*                    LISTEN      27129/java
tcp6       0      0 :::8686                 :::*                    LISTEN      27129/java
tcp6       0      0 :::3920                 :::*                    LISTEN      27129/java
tcp6       0      0 :::4848                 :::*                    LISTEN      27129/java
tcp6       0      0 :::8080                 :::*                    LISTEN      27129/java