Interested to know how people usually check to see if Tomcat is running on a Unix environment.
I either check that the process is running using
ps -ef | grep java
ps -ef | grep logging
or i check that the port number is active
netstat -a | grep 8080
is there a better way of checking that Tomcat is running? The above seem to be to be a 'hacky' way of checking that Tomcat is running.
tomcat.sh helps you know this easily.
tomcat.sh usage doc says:
no argument: display the process-id of the tomcat, if it's running, otherwise do nothing
So, run command on your command prompt and check for pid:
$ tomcat.sh
Basically you want to test
I will evaluate first 2 options as the 3rd one has been sufficiently answered already.
easiest is just to develop a webpage on your WebApp that gathers some basic metrics, and have a client that can read the results or detect connectivity issues.
For doing so, you have several issues