I hope this is the right list, i'm trying to run latest sermyadmin against a remote mysql DB. I get error of this nature. Last packet sent to the server was 0 ms ago. at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) ... 22 more Caused by: org.springframework.jdbc.support.MetaDataAccessException: Could not get Connection for extracting meta data; nested exception is org.springframework.jdbc.CannotGetJdbcConnectionException: Could not get JDBC Connection; nested exception is com.mysql.jdbc.exceptions.jdbc4.CommunicationsException: Communications link failure