Tomcat in Production

Question

What's the best way to achieve central management of a cluster of Tomcat servers in production? Specifically, I'm looking for automatic application (WAR) deployment, consolidated logs, and basic health monitoring at a minimum. What open source or commercial management tools are people using for this?

Answer 1

LambdaProbe is a commonly used open source solution.

you can get Cluster health monitoring and App deployment, see the screenshots and in particular http://www.lambdaprobe.org/d/screenshots/full/cluster.png

and http://www.lambdaprobe.org/d/screenshots/full/deployment.png

You get logging as well, I'm not sure about the consolidated log for the cluster though.