It depends on what you mean with "monitor". We use nagios (http://www.nagios.org) to monitor multiple Tomcat instances. You can do a plain check for an open socket, or call Tomcat's jmx proxy over http(s) to query Tomcat's mbeans.
regards, Harry 2010/4/23 Ziggy <zigg...@gmail.com> > Hi guys, > > Is there a way to monitor multiple tomcat instances? I have managed to > configure multiple tomcat instances using $CATALINA_BASE but i cant seem to > be able to find a way to monitor the instances. I know about the tomcat > manager, admin and the Tomcat Probe/lambda applications. These will all > only > monitor a single instance of a running tomcat. > > Is there a way i can monitor all running instances from one tomcat > instance? > > Thanks >
