[CentOS] Apache jserv monitoring?

[Sean Carolan]

> Sounds similar to the mod_jk connector in apache to connect to
> tomcat. When I had to deal with this I setup a dedicated apache
> instance on each system running tomcat whose sole purpose for
> existence was for testing that connector.
>
> So say setup an apache instance on another port, and have it
> direct all traffic back to mod_jserv, then hit the apache
> instance with http. It's not perfect but at least for me apache
> was a lot more stable than tomcat especially in such a basic
> configuration, so it worked well as a way to test the health
> of the mod_jk connector.

Excellent idea, Nate.  I already have apache installed on all these
servers, so it should be fairly trivial to set up a local test site
just for this purpose.  I'm going to test this out in our lab
environment today and see how it performs.