Leo Donahue - RDSA IT wrote:
I would be curious to find out how many users run Tomcat from the console in a
virtual machine environment.
When you remote into your virtual machine that is running Tomcat from the
console, you must not be logging off of that session are you? How do you keep
the console window open, unless you just close the session? When you remote
back into your server after time passes, how do you know you will get the same
session?
In our virtual environment, I've never been able to leave the console window
running. Something eventually kills the console window, so we've been running
it as a service.
I do this all the time, on a series of servers (Tomcat or others), often on several
servers at once from my laptop.
Using a vSphere Client or VNC for instance, does not logoff the user session or close any
window when you connect/disconnect. It is only MS Remote Desktop or Remote Console
thingies who do that.
And both the above solutions require a password to connect to the console, so since there
is no "real" physical console attached to the server, the fact of leaving this console
"logged-in" is not any more of a security issue than anything else.
I am not advocating this solution as a universal solution to everything. There are cases
when running as a Windows Service is more appropriate (or mandatory). In some other
cases, the above solutions are more practical. YMMV as they say.
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