# ScyllaDB JMX listening on ports

**URL:** https://forum.scylladb.com/t/scylladb-jmx-listening-on-ports/4965
**Category:** ScyllaDB
**Tags:** administration
**Created:** [July 9, 2025, 3:38am UTC](https://forum.scylladb.com/t/scylladb-jmx-listening-on-ports/4965 "2025-07-09T03:38:55Z")
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### Author: ![Guy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.scylladb.com/guy/32/9_2.png) [@Guy](https://forum.scylladb.com/u/Guy)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2025, 3:38am UTC](https://forum.scylladb.com/t/scylladb-jmx-listening-on-ports/4965/1 "2025-07-09T03:38:55Z")

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> [**Originally from the User Slack**](https://slack.scylladb.com/)
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> ![Mahdi_Kamali](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/scylladb/original/2X/7/7fb1a0a118e8eb1518763300c376e9c0ce9db7bc.png) **@Mahdi\_Kamali:** Why scylla-jmx is opening a random port and listening on 0.0.0.0:xxxx?!  
> What this port is used for?  
> `tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:xxxxx 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 87644/java`
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> ![Some_Random_Guy](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/scylladb/original/2X/8/8f882d736f3238880831d60e9744164f58b807d4.png) **@Some\_Random\_Guy:** it isn’t. my guess is you’re running netstat as a non-root user
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> ![avi](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/scylladb/original/1X/b5e08becda8d9df1abff1d3a2d9ffe1126ac3fc6.jpeg) **@avi:** also, modern versions no longer have jmx