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In case the Tomcat service halts or hangs due to whatever... , I installed monit to restart the service and then alert me. See an example of my config below, added to the bottom of the /etc/monit/monitrc file.

dspace@ir1:/etc/monit$ sudo cat /etc/monit/monitrc
set daemon  60
set logfile syslog facility log_daemon
set mailserver localhost
set mail-format { from: monit@scholar.sun.ac.za }
set alert root@localhost
set httpd port 2812
     allow %username%:%password%

check process sshd with pidfile /var/run/sshd.pid
   start = "/usr/sbin/service ssh start"
   stop  = "/usr/sbin/service ssh stop"
   if failed port 22 protocol ssh with timeout 5 seconds then restart
   alert hgibson@sun.ac.za

check process tomcat6 with pidfile /var/run/tomcat6.pid
   start = "/usr/sbin/service tomcat6 restart"
   stop  = "/usr/sbin/service tomcat6 stop"
   if failed port 80 protocol http with timeout 300 seconds then restart
   alert hgibson@sun.ac.za
   alert wklap@sun.ac.za

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