Question

Quite simply, how does one determine whether or not Tomcat is running in Windows, using the command prompt?

I am writing a batch script that must do this. This is the Bash version:

RESULT=`netstat -na | grep $2 | awk '{print $7}' | wc -l`

Where $2 is the port.

I am looking for something similar to that. Using Cygwin is out of the question, of necessity this script must be able to run on machines that only have Tomcat.

Answer 1

You could use tasklist to check if the tomcat executable is running. For example:

@echo off
tasklist /FI "IMAGENAME eq tomcat.exe" | find /C /I ".exe" > NUL
if %errorlevel%==0 goto :running

echo tomcat is not running
goto :eof

:running
echo tomcat is running

:eof

It is also possible to check a remove server using the options /S, /U and /P. See tasklist /? for details.