Chapter 8. Monitoring and Management of Tomcat 7

Monitoring plays a vital role in an IT administrator's life. It makes the life of a web/infrastructure engineer predictable. When I started my career in web infrastructure support, I always wondered, how does my boss know that a process is 90 percent utilized for a particular system or how does he know that a particular process will die after about 90 minutes from now, without logging into the application? Later, I found out that they have set up a monitoring system using various third-party tools available in the market for servers and application monitoring.

In this chapter, we will discuss:

  • How to monitor Tomcat 7
  • Management of applications using the Tomcat Manager
  • A third-party utility used for ...

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