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You have Tomcat 8.5 or later installed in the default location of /opt/tomcat
You are running Java version 1.8 or later
You have a user that can sudo (or access to root)
JAVA_HOME is defined correctly
Your firewall is disabled (or you know how to allow traffic through it)
Step 1: VisualVM
On your workstation, install VisualVM - You can find it here: https://visualvm.github.io/
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