Another answer on monitoring: We run a shell script on cron which invokes Ant to monitor which servlets are running in Tomcat (using the list target), and then compare the results with a properties file containing the names of our servlets - any discrepancy and an alarm is automatically triggered.
So far Tomcat has been 100% stable however :-)) -----Original Message----- From: krip pane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Mittwoch, 12. Februar 2003 15:10 To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: loadbalancing with tomcat only and unable to bring admin and manager pages Ben, Thanks for te reply (so far the only one). Can you please elaborate on the monitoring part? I meant to ask what are the symptoms (are there generic meassges?) to grep for from the log files to monitor the health of tomcat. Thanks --- Ben Ricker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 10:06, krip pane wrote: > > > i'm running tomcat 4.1.12. I've a few questions > any > > and all help is truly appreciated. > > > > 1. what's the best way to monitor the health of > > tomcat? > > There are a number of ways to do this: process > watching, scripts that > access the certain URLs and match the result with > what is expected, > third-party monitors like Big Brother, etc. > > > 2. Is the default connector that comes packaged > with > > tomcat capable of doing failover,loadbalancing or > do I > > need to have apache in the front and a connector > in > > between. > > You need to have Apache out in front with a > connector in between. > > > 3. Is it possible to redirect tomcat to port 80 > (or do > > i need apache in the front again) to avoid having > the > > users type 8080 everytime? > > You can have Tomcat use port 80, but you have to > change the server.xml > to reflect that and start Tomcat as Root. However, > you would not have > the load-balancing/failover. > > > 4. while starting tomcat as user "tomcat" i keep > > getting "tomcat-users permission denied". only > > wrokaround I found was to either give the user > write > > access to the conf dir or comment out the > memoryrealm > > altogether. One, is it a good idea to give the > suer > > write access to conf dir. Two i have to setup a > user > > list (currently locally) to allow access to > tomcat, if > > i comment out the memeoryrealm then how do i > > authenticate my users. > > I give the user 'Tomcat' the ownership of the Tomcat > directory. Should > be no pproblem with that, as log as the conf > directory is not in the > 'ROOT' docbase directory. > > The answer above should fix two. > > Ben Ricker > > -- > Ben Ricker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Wellinx.com > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Send Flowers for Valentine's Day http://shopping.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
