Getting started with the Apache Tomcat on RHEL ZipKit
Apache Tomcat (or simply Tomcat) is an open source web server and servlet container developed by the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). Tomcat implements the Java Servlet and the JavaServer Pages (JSP) specifications from Sun Microsystems, and provides a pure Java HTTP web server environment in which Java code runs.
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Where to download the ZipKit
- Download the Apache Tomcat ZipKit for RHEL 6.3 from the BMC Communities.
- Download MySQL packages from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 64 bit media as per your RHEL environment. The following files are the MySQL packages:
Software file name for RHEL 6.3 | Description |
|---|---|
Perl-DBI for MySQL 5.1 | Library files for MySQL 5.0 integration |
mysql-5.1.61-4.el6.x86_64.rpm | MySQL |
perl-DBD-MySQL-4.013-3.el6.x86_64.rpm | Library files for MySQL server 5.0 or 5.1 integration |
mysql-server-5.1.61-4.el6.x86_64.rpm | MySQL server package 5.0 or 5.1 |
What is in the ZipKit
The zipKit can contain the following packages:
Package | Description |
|---|---|
Blueprint | Contains all the deployment models associated with the blueprint and blueprint options (if any). |
Service Catalog | Contains all the services in the service catalog associated with the service blueprint. |
Service Offering | Contains all the service offerings in the service associated with the service blueprint. |
Requestable Offering | Contains the requestable offering in the service offering associated with the service blueprint. |
BSA | Contains the software package files, system package associated with the service blueprint, and NSH script (if any). |
AO | Contains the BMC Atrium Orchestrator workflow (if any). |
Prerequisite for the ZipKit
- Ensure that you have created a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3 VM template in the vCenter. For more information, see Setting-up-and-using-VM-provisioning-from-VMware-VM-template.
- While creating the RHEL 6.3 template, you need to choose the following options for RHEL 6.3 operating system:
- Base System - Base, Large Systems Performance and Perl Support
- Development - Development Tools and Development Libraries
- Servers - Server Platform.
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