Please note: twiddle is not available any more as default Command Line in JBoss AS 7 and WildFly. If you still need to monitor the MBeans attribute of the application server from the shell, see this article: Monitoring WildFly MBeans from the shell Twiddle example commandsJBoss provides a simple command line tool that allows for interaction with a remote JMX server instance. This tool is called jb