Tomcat Manager in Tomcat 7
The Tomcat Manager is a default tool for managing operations of Apache Tomcat 7. It provides freedom to the IT administrators to remotely manage the application and monitor the systems. Following are the advantages of the Tomcat Manager:
Allow remote deploy, rollback, start, and stop features for the administrator.
Provide detailed monitoring status for the application and server.
Administrators need not stay in the office 24x7. In case of any issues, he/she can log in to the Tomcat Manager to resolve the issue. In short, we can say remote administration of Tomcat becomes very easy for administrators.
Note
It's not recommended to open the Tomcat Manager from the Internet. In case you have to do so, then we have to enforce strong security policies on Tomcat 7 or we can configure the Virtual Private Network (VPN) for the administrators.
Perform the following steps to access Tomcat Manager:
1. You can access the Tomcat Manager using the URL
http://localhost:8080/. The...
