It can be very useful to connect to the server to get some informations.
For such a case OpenEJB/TomEE proposes to start with the Java EE server a SSH server. Currently the security is based on JAAS (see how to configure JAAS for TomEE for more information about it).
Simply extract the openejb-ssh jar in the lib of tomee (webapps/tomee/lib) or openejb libs (lib folder). Then simply connect using your JAAS credential.
Note: you can use the provisioning features of openejb to do this job!
Then simply activate the service manage: it is done setting the system property openejb.servicemanager.enabled to true.
Note: it can be done through the conf/system.properties file. Note2: please take care to not add space after true (not 'true ' for instance).
Once you are connected you get some commands: