# stop Tomcat instances **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Developer\ **Created:** [December 11, 2014, 5:35pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/stop-tomcat-instances/17029 "2014-12-11T17:35:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sharon\_Bernstein](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Sharon\_Bernstein](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Sharon_Bernstein)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2014, 5:35pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/stop-tomcat-instances/17029/1 "2014-12-11T17:35:30Z")
Hello. im unable to stop Tomcat instances with Ansible. in the shell, i just need to type /etc/init.d/tomcat7\_stop instance01 i found this .yml file and it’s written - name: stop tomcat service: name=tomcat state=stopped pattern={{instance}} args={{instance}} but i don’t know what i supposed to fill in the “pattern” and in “args” thanks ---
**Author:** ![Serge\_van\_Ginderacht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b782af/32.png) [@Serge\_van\_Ginderacht](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Serge_van_Ginderacht)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2014, 5:46pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/stop-tomcat-instances/17029/2 "2014-12-11T17:46:23Z")
​"pattern" is a literal pattern on which you would grep on a full ps output. That could be 'java', but you probably want to note something more specific, depending on the full command line​ which starts your tomcat. Given that tomcat sometimes doesn't stop, as in hangs or as in takes a long time to stop, I combine this with a custom module i wrote, that has different options to check on a process, whether it stopped, and to kill it nicely, or later on not so nicely:   [https://github.com/ginsys/ansible-plugins/blob/devel/library/check\_process](https://github.com/ginsys/ansible-plugins/blob/devel/library/check_process) HTH, Serge ---
**Author:** ![Sharon\_Bernstein](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Sharon\_Bernstein](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Sharon_Bernstein)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2014, 5:59pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/stop-tomcat-instances/17029/3 "2014-12-11T17:59:17Z")
not sure i quite understand… when i did vi /etc/init.d/tomcat7\_stop instance01 … this is how it stops the service: instance01) su tomcat7\_01 -c “/var/tomcat7\_instances/instance01/bin/shutdown.sh” pkill -9 -u tomcat7\_01 ;; and when i type ps -aux | grep java … the output is: Warning: bad syntax, perhaps a bogus ‘-’? See /usr/share/doc/procps-3.2.8/FAQ 1013 1604 0.0 4.7 2902916 283460 ? Sl Sep23 109:22 /usr/java/jdk/bin/java -Djava.util.logging.config.file=/var/tomcat7\_instances/instance04/conf/logging.properties -Djava.util.logging.manager=org.apache.juli.ClassLoaderLogManager -Xms512M -Xmx512M -XX:MaxPermSize=256M -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote -Duser.language=en -Duser.country=US -Duser.region= -Djava.endorsed.dirs=/var/tomcat7\_instances/instance04/endorsed -classpath /var/tomcat7\_instances/instance04/bin/bootstrap.jar:/var/tomcat7\_instances/instance04/bin/tomcat-juli.jar -Dcatalina.base=/var/tomcat7\_instances/instance04 -Dcatalina.home=/var/tomcat7\_instances/instance04 -Djava.io.tmpdir=/var/tomcat7\_instances/instance04/temp org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap start 1010 5243 0.1 10.4 3735296 624772 ? Sl Dec10 1:41 /usr/java/jdk/bin/java -Djava.util.logging.config.file=/var/tomcat7\_instances/instance01/conf/logging.properties -Djava.util.logging.manager=org.apache.juli.ClassLoaderLogManager -Xms512M -Xmx1024M -XX:MaxPermSize=256M -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote -Duser.language=en -Duser.country=US -Duser.region= -Djava.endorsed.dirs=/var/tomcat7\_instances/instance01/endorsed -classpath /var/tomcat7\_instances/instance01/bin/bootstrap.jar:/var/tomcat7\_instances/instance01/bin/tomcat-juli.jar -Dcatalina.base=/var/tomcat7\_instances/instance01 -Dcatalina.home=/var/tomcat7\_instances/instance01 -Djava.io.tmpdir=/var/tomcat7\_instances/instance01/temp org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap start rad 5570 58.1 1.3 2767368 81252 ? Sl 19:50 0:04 java -Dlog\_file\_name=reporter\_packager\_stats -Dblade\_name=MGMT -Dcomp\_name=Feedback -Dext.prop.dir=/usr/share/common/Properties -jar reports\_packager.jar 5555 MGMT stats 1016 5618 78.7 1.1 2692084 69384 ? Sl 19:50 0:03 java -Dlog\_file\_name=reporter\_packager\_vthsBlackMd5info\_amw -Dblade\_name=AMW -Dcomp\_name=Feedback -Dext.prop.dir=/usr/share/common/Properties -jar reports\_packager.jar 8888 AMW vthsBlackMd5info root 5636 0.0 0.0 103244 820 pts/0 R+ 19:50 0:00 grep java 1010 12770 2.0 12.8 3800328 770416 ? Sl Dec10 36:19 /usr/java/jdk/bin/java -Djava.util.logging.config.file=/var/tomcat7\_instances/instance01/conf/logging.properties -Djava.util.logging.manager=org.apache.juli.ClassLoaderLogManager -Xms512M -Xmx1024M -XX:MaxPermSize=256M -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote -Duser.language=en -Duser.country=US -Duser.region= -Djava.endorsed.dirs=/var/tomcat7\_instances/instance01/endorsed -classpath /var/tomcat7\_instances/instance01/bin/bootstrap.jar:/var/tomcat7\_instances/instance01/bin/tomcat-juli.jar -Dcatalina.base=/var/tomcat7\_instances/instance01 -Dcatalina.home=/var/tomcat7\_instances/instance01 -Djava.io.tmpdir=/var/tomcat7\_instances/instance01/temp org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap start 1011 16122 8.9 14.5 4490312 871212 ? Sl Dec10 133:32 /usr/java/jdk/bin/java -Djava.util.logging.config.file=/var/tomcat7\_instances/instance02/conf/logging.properties -Djava.util.logging.manager=org.apache.juli.ClassLoaderLogManager -Xms512M -Xmx1536M -XX:MaxPermSize=256M -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote -Duser.language=en -Duser.country=US -Duser.region= -Djava.endorsed.dirs=/var/tomcat7\_instances/instance02/endorsed -classpath /var/tomcat7\_instances/instance02/bin/bootstrap.jar:/var/tomcat7\_instances/instance02/bin/tomcat-juli.jar -Dcatalina.base=/var/tomcat7\_instances/instance02 -Dcatalina.home=/var/tomcat7\_instances/instance02 -Djava.io.tmpdir=/var/tomcat7\_instances/instance02/temp org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap start 1012 28137 0.4 15.3 4315724 919084 ? Sl Sep28 527:26 /usr/java/jdk/bin/java -Djava.util.logging.config.file=/var/tomcat7\_instances/instance03/conf/logging.properties -Djava.util.logging.manager=org.apache.juli.ClassLoaderLogManager -Xms512M -Xmx1536M -XX:MaxPermSize=256M -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote -Duser.language=en -Duser.country=US -Duser.region= -Djava.endorsed.dirs=/var/tomcat7\_instances/instance03/endorsed -classpath /var/tomcat7\_instances/instance03/bin/bootstrap.jar:/var/tomcat7\_instances/instance03/bin/tomcat-juli.jar -Dcatalina.base=/var/tomcat7\_instances/instance03 -Dcatalina.home=/var/tomcat7\_instances/instance03 -Djava.io.tmpdir=/var/tomcat7\_instances/instance03/temp org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap start am i supposed to fill in pattern like this: - name: stop tomcat service: name=tomcat state=stopped pattern={{java}} args={{java}} thanks ---
**Author:** ![Brian\_Coca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@Brian\_Coca](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Brian_Coca)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2014, 6:00pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/stop-tomcat-instances/17029/4 "2014-12-11T18:00:39Z")
I would also point out that "/etc/init.d/tomcat7\_stop instance01" does not look like a standard init script, this will not work with the service module. I've used multi instance tomcat scripts before but they were either: /etc/init.d/tomcat7\_instance01 stop works using tomcat7\_instance01 as service name or /etc/init.d/tomcat7 stop instance01 which is supported by the arguments parameter arguments=instance01 ---
**Author:** ![Sharon\_Bernstein](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Sharon\_Bernstein](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Sharon_Bernstein)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2014, 6:38pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/stop-tomcat-instances/17029/5 "2014-12-11T18:38:31Z")
i was able to run it like this: - name: stop tomcat sudo: yes command: /etc/init.d/tomcat7\_stop instance01 but failed to run the second command: pkill -9 -u tomcat7\_01 received this output: TASK: [stop tomcat] \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\* failed: [194._._.\*] =\> {“changed”: true, “cmd”: [“/etc/init.d/tomcat7\_stop”, “instance01”], “delta”: “0:00:01.090791”, “end”: “2014-12-11 20:30:35.019231”, “rc”: 1, “start”: “2014-12-11 20:30:33.928440”} stderr: Dec 11, 2014 8:30:34 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina stopServer SEVERE: Catalina.stop: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(Native Method) at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.doConnect(Unknown Source) at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.connectToAddress(Unknown Source) at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.connect(Unknown Source) at java.net.SocksSocketImpl.connect(Unknown Source) at java.net.Socket.connect(Unknown Source) at java.net.Socket.connect(Unknown Source) at java.net.Socket.(Unknown Source) at java.net.Socket.(Unknown Source) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.stopServer(Catalina.java:499) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.stopServer(Bootstrap.java:371) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:458) stdout: Using CATALINA\_BASE: /var/tomcat7\_instances/instance01 Using CATALINA\_HOME: /var/tomcat7\_instances/instance01 Using CATALINA\_TMPDIR: /var/tomcat7\_instances/instance01/temp Using JRE\_HOME: /usr/java/jdk Using CLASSPATH: /var/tomcat7\_instances/instance01/bin/bootstrap.jar:/var/tomcat7\_instances/instance01/bin/tomcat-juli.jar FATAL: all hosts have already failed – aborting how could i write it the write way? or is it better to fill the previous command? tomcat state=stopped pattern={{instance}} args={{instance}} thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_DeHaan1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5e9695/32.png) [@Michael\_DeHaan1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan1)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2014, 11:57pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/stop-tomcat-instances/17029/6 "2014-12-11T23:57:38Z")
Hi Sharon, As this is a user-level question, can you please continue this over on ansible-project list? Thanks!