Apache Tomcat periodically releases security and bug patches for Tomcat 7.
The steps to be performed to update tomcat 7 manually are as below:
- Open windows services console.
- Stop Idera Web Application Service
- Go to official Apache Tomcat 7 downloads website.
Website url is : https://tomcat.apache.org/download-70.cgi - Under Binary Distributions download the zip files for Core and Embedded
- Extract the two zip files.
- From the extracted core zip folder, navigate to lib folder and copy all the jar libraries.
- Open File explorer and navigate to Idera Dashboard installed folder. Ex: “C:\Program Files\Idera\Dashboard\WebApplication\lib”
- Paste the copied jar libraries here. In the prompt select Replace all files.
- Navigate to extracted embedded zip folder and copy all the jar libraries.
- Navigate back to Idera Dashboard installed lib folder. Ex: “C:\Program Files\Idera\Dashboard\WebApplication\lib”
- Paste the embedded jar libraies here. In the prompt select replace all files.
- Open windows services console.
- Start Idera Dashboard Web Application
To validate IDERA Dashboard Tomcat version:
- Open windows command prompt
- Move to IDERA Dashboard Web Application Lib folder of IDERA Dashboard (Example: cd C:\Program Files\Idera\Dashbaord\WebApplication\lib)
- Type the following command: java -cp catalina.jar org.apache.catalina.util.ServerInfo
(Java needs to be installed and the JAVA HOME path set on the system to execute this command) - Output should be as shown below:
Server version: Apache Tomcat/7.0.79
Server built: Jun 26 2017 16:25:20 UTC
Server number: 7.0.79.0
OS Name: Windows Server 2012 R2
OS Version: 6.3
Architecture: amd64
JVM Version: 1.7.0_79-b15
JVM Vendor: Oracle Corporation - The Server Number indicates the tomcat version IDERA Dashboard is currently using. In the above output example, 79 is the patch/minor build under Tomcat 7