Tomcat 8 System Tray Icon

Question

I've been trying to get the Tomcat8 system tray icon to appear on a Windows Server 2012 box, but I'm running into an issue. I followed the instructions here to put the Tomcat 8 icon in the system try. So, I ran the following command

C:\..\bin>tomcat8w //MS//Tomcat8

The icon shows up in the system tray, as expected, but when I reboot my machine the icon is no longer there, and I must run the same command in order for it to appear again. Is there anything I can do to ensure that the icon remains persistently?

Answer 1

There are several solutions for this. What worked for me is the following: Create a .bat to run at windows log on that opens the tomcat icon tray. To do so, just use what you posted before: Open a notepad and type the following:

start "" "C:\Program Files (x86)\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 7.0\bin\Tomcat7w.exe" //MS//Tomcat7

Go to file --> Save as... Select the location C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\StartUp in "Filename:" type, TomcatMonitor.bat in "Save as type" select, All Files (.)

That's it. Next time your computer log on it will run the script to open the Tomcat monitor.