Using wget and the Tomcat manager, you can script remote tomcat deploys, undeploys, starts, stops, and status.

First, make sure the Tomcat manager is installed and running:

Read more… Command-line Tomcat server control with wget and the Tomcat manager

Cronolog provides a solution to the age-old problem of tomcat’s catalina.out log file not rotating and growing so large that the server must be stopped to deal with it.

First, install cronolog, which can be downloaded from here.

Read more… Rotating catalina.out in tomcat 5.5 using cronolog