Tomcat 6 availability issue in Hyperic

I have recently started using Hyperic to monitor services on several servers and ran into a problem with two different servers where I needed to monitor Tomcat 6.0 availability on a Windows 2003 platform. Turns out the problem was the service query to find the process in Windows was not able to find the Tomcat process like it should have. Thanks to the support forum question and answer below I was able to fix my problem.  Basically I had to change the process.query in Hyperic for the Tomcat service to be Pid.Service.eq=Service name (in this case Tomcat6).

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Running Apache Tomcat on Mac OSX

Here is a great link for getting Apache Tomcat setup to run easily on Mac OSX.

Once you download Tomcat and extract the files from the zip there are a couple of things you need to do from a terminal in the tomcat/bin folder:

chmod 755 *.sh 



You might also want to delete the *.bat files because you cannot use them anyway:

rm *.bat

There is also a nice shell script in the link above that will let you start and stop tomcat by typing in 'tomcat start' or 'tomcat stop' from a terminal window.