Restart remote tomcat instance

remoteTomcatRestart.groovy

/**
 * This script restarts a remote tomcat instance
 * Usage:   groovy restartRemoteTomcat.groovy or groovy restartRemoteTomcat.groovy remoteServer remoteUser pathToTomcatBinDirectory
 * Example:  groovy restartRemoteTomcat myServer username  "/home/username/apache-tomcat-7.0.39/bin/"
 */

@Grapes([
@Grab('org.apache.ant:ant:1.8.3'),
@Grab(group = 'ant', module = 'ant-jsch', version = '1.6.5'),
@Grab(group = 'com.jcraft', module = 'jsch', version = '0.1.48'),
@GrabConfig(systemClassLoader = true)
])

// Configure the parameters
def ant = new AntBuilder()
def remoteServer = "remoteServername"
def remoteUser = "remoteUsername"
def privateKey = "/home/username/.ssh/id_rsa" // path to local user's private key file
def passphrase = ""
def binDirPath = "" // path to tomcat's bin directory on remote server
def stopCommand = "shutdown.sh"
def startCommand = "startup.sh"

if (args) {
    remoteServer = args[0]
    remoteUser = args[1]
    binDirPath = args[2]
}

println "Stopping tomcat: ${remoteServer}:${binDirPath}${stopCommand}"
ant.sshexec(
        host: remoteServer,
        username: remoteUser,
        keyfile: privateKey,
        passphrase: passphrase,
        command: "${binDirPath}${stopCommand}"
)

println "Starting tomcat: ${remoteServer}:${binDirPath}${stopCommand}"
ant.sshexec(
        host: remoteServer,
        username: remoteUser,
        keyfile: privateKey,
        passphrase: passphrase,
        command: "${binDirPath}${startCommand}"
)