Tomcat Admin

Tomcat administration is similar to administering any other application server, except that the tools provided with the vanilla Tomcat server are rather limited.

To deploy new applications, you can use the manager application that is included in the Tomcat distribution. You can also get basic information on server status, including server information, JVM memory consumption, information on the different connectors ( for ex: http connector on 8080 ).

Using the manager application, you can also view the list of running applications, expire the sessions on these applications, start/stop/reload these applications. You can also undeploy these applications.

Beyond these basic features, Tomcat manager does not provide much interms of administration capabilities. Prior versions of Tomcat included Administration console, which has since been retired and is not available with the latest versions of Tomcat.

For a fully featured administration capabilities, you should consider an enterprise strength product such as Tcat Server.

 

Starting with Tomcat 4.1, Apache Tomcat came bundled with an Admin application. This admin application helps you initialization parameters, deal with users, groups, contexts, and data sources. There are a range of views on the robustness and capabilities of the Tomcat Admin application, but with time the Tomcat Admin application is gaining more features, providing new tools, and becoming increasingly useful.