I actually use Windows Powershell to execute commands on remote machines, including stopping/starting Tomcat (and other Windows Services).
This works well for me - but in this case, I have complete control of all the VMs - and they are not Production Servers. I used the following articles as reference for creating the Powershell scripts: http://www.howtogeek.com/117192/how-to-run-powershell-commands-on-remote-computers/ http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6239647/using-powershell-credentials-without-being-prompted-for-a-password Regards, Christopher Aguirre On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 4:28 PM, Christopher Schultz < ch...@christopherschultz.net> wrote: > Alarcón, > > On 5/5/15 1:55 PM, Alarcón Vladimir wrote: > > Hi, for a few months I was wondering about an extension for Tomcat > > but I'm not sure if there would be interest from the part of the > > Tomcat team. > > > > It's about managing multiple Tomcat servers across multiple machines, > > from one (or more) centralized location, something like a "Grid > > Admin". Anyway, the thing is that when you have many Tomcat servers, > > it could be useful to perform basic operations from a web or > > command-line interface, so to start, stop, restart, and (sometimes) > > kill Tomcat servers. > > > > My work includes developing web applications and also managing > > production deployments for clusters of small clusters of 2 servers to > > clusters of 70 servers, and when you have that many, it's a pain in > > the neck to manage them one by one. > > > > I think I can write a basic proof of concept, but I would like to > > find out if it's worth it or not. > > I'd definitely be interested in such a tool. > > It sounds like it would make for a great presentation for ApacheCon > Europe 2015: > http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/apachecon-europe/ > > Even if it ends up just being a nice wrapper around the existing ant > tasks for remote-controlling the manager web application, it would be > nice. The ant tasks can't bounce a Tomcat instance, though, so > additional features would certainly be more interesting. > > -chris > >
