You can manage Equinox through the Equinox monitoring framework.
Once you have installed the Equinox monitoring framework and restarted Eclipse:
Go to Window > Open Perspective > Other and select the JMX perspective
Select JMX Server > Open Connection and click on OK
Switch to the MBean Explorer by going to Window > Show View > Other and selecting the MBean Explorer
Click on the
New Connection icon
in the MBean Explorer menu
bar
Select the Advanced tab and set the JMX URL to service:jmx:rmi:///jndi/rmi://:8118/jmxserver
You now have access to the MBeans exposed by Equinox.