STARTING UP TOMCAT ON REMOTE WIN2000 SERVER

Question

Hi all,
i have the following problem and i was wondering if any of you has ever come across the same problem as me. I am trying to setup a server/client network. As you can imagine i need to startup tomcat by accessing the actual server machine from my own pc. however, as the startup is a batch file it cannot start up tomcat when you click on it from a different machine that does not have tomcat installed on it. Therefore it is unable to start tomcat remotely. Since, i also need to restart tomcat anytime i do any alterations on any of my files there is no way i can be physically going to the server room and restarting Tomcat manually.This is out of the question.
Has anyone got any ideas as to how there is a way (if any) to start tomcat remotely on a win 2000 server machine?? By the way the version of tomcat i m using is Tomcat 4.1.29
Please help

Answer 1

Do i need to download a specific software for this
application or does it come built in with tomcat?I am suggesting that you use Secure Shell to execute remote OS commands.
This has nothing to do with java or tomcat.
I have used the OpenSSH server (sshd) that comes with cygwin.
You can get it from here http://www.cygwin.com just click there setup.exe install the default installation. You'll have some extra work to do to get the sshd to run as a service on your windows 2000 box, but it isn't as difficult as it use to be. Here's a good link http://tech.erdelynet.com/cygwin-sshd.html
On your local system you can install cygwin and use its ssh clients (ssh/scp/sftp) or you can install something called PuTTy. Just do a google for PuTTy and you'll be able to figure it out.
I have used both PuTTy and cygwin's clients.
Can you be more specific on that .bat file i need to
create???Well a batch file as you know is just a file containing a series of command-line commands.
Once you got all your secure shell stuff installed and configured just work out what commands you wish to issue and store them in a .bat file.