IDERA Dashboard includes Tomcat 7, but Apache Tomcat periodically releases security and bug patches. To manually update Tomcat 7.0 perform the steps below:
- Open Windows Services console and stop Idera Dashboard Web Application Service.
- Go to the official Apache Tomcat 7 downloads website (https://tomcat.apache.org/download-70.cgi)
Download and extract the zip files for Core and Embedded located under Binary Distributions. - Replace the Jar libraries of IDERA Dashboard lib folder installed (i.e. "C:\Program Files\Idera\Dashboard\WebApplication\lib") with the Jar libraries of the lib folder from the extracted core zip folder.
- As in the previous step, replace the Jar libraries from the IDERA Dashboard lib folder installed (i.e. "C:\Program Files\Idera\Dashboard\WebApplication\lib") with the Jar libraries of the extracted embedded zip folder.
- Open Windows Services console and start Idera Dashboard Web Application Service.
Steps to validate IDERA Dashboard Tomcat version:
- Open Windows command prompt
- Go to IDERA Dashboard Web Application Lib folder of IDERA Dashboard (e.g. cd C:\Program Files\Idera\Dashbaord\WebApplication\lib)
- Type the following command:
java -cp catalina.jar org.apache.catalina.util.ServerInfo
To execute this command, you need to have Java installed and the JAVA HOME path set on the system.
The output should be as shown below:
The Server Number indicates the Tomcat version IDERA Dashboard is currently using.