2015-05-05 19:55 GMT+02:00 Alarcón Vladimir < vladimiralar...@yahoo.com.invalid>:
> 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. > > Ok, so I am casually reading the wiki. This started with a simple initial proposition I guess, but now it is probably a much bigger project that Tomcat itself. Another caveat is that this is a lot of infrastructure to deploy for the admin/user, who also probably needs to monitor the rest of his stuff, so usually this sort of tool also monitors the JVMs, the OSes, the front end proxys, the DBs, etc etc etc. I had to have a look at some point at the relevant open source project Red Hat is doing ( http://rhq-project.github.io/rhq/ ), and I found it was very complex. Its architecture looks similar to what I see in the wiki now. There are probably many more projects like that out there, but since I am not an admin, I don't really care that much :) So, good luck with this Tomcat specific project if you decide to go for it ! IMO to provide some good value it would have to focus on easy deployment and config, taking advantage of being a specialized tool. Rémy
