Using SSL allows clients to establish secure links to a JMX agent. Using SSL ensures that the client-server link is secure, and that the client has indeed set up a link to the correct server. However, it does not authenticate the client; the server does not know who the client is.
Further authentication—for example, identifying that the client is who it purports to be—must be performed separately. Only clients that have a copy of the server’s signed certificate can connect, so you can restrict connections to the set of clients to whom the certificates have been granted.
