Monitoring java processes on Linux

I'm trying to monitor some Java processes on a Linux box over SNMP.  That means having to monitor specific instances of a process, which I get from parameters rather than the process name itself.  Without using SSH, which I'm not willing to do if I can avoid it (security aside, these monitors have a bad habit of "falling over" arbitrarily and waking on-call folks at 3 AM), how can I accomplish this?  Other threads on thwack indicate the question's been asked but never answered for five years now.