• First of all, please, save AIMS2.war in any folder where it’s convenient for you, desktop will also do.
• Then let’s start Tomcat Monitor.“Start” menu-> All programmes ->“Apache Tomcat”-> “Monitor Tomcat”
• Right-click on the newly appeared icon on the system tray (right hand-side of the task bar). Note: the “red square” indicates that server is down, the “green arrow”- server is running.
• Choose “Start service” to initiate the server operation
• Open the browser window (e.g. Internet explorer or Firefox)
• Enter http://localhost:8080/manager/html. This should bring up the Tomcat Manager control panel. You will be asked for login and password which were set during the Tomcat installation (see step2)
• Scroll the page down and locate the form called “WAR file to deploy”. Fetch the AIMS2.war file using the button “Browse”
• Click “Deploy”
• A new application should appear in the upper half of the Tomcat manager page (in the list of applications). The application will be called “AIMS2” with  its running status being “true”.
• Click on the application title (AIMS2) in the left column. This will bring up the login page to AIMS. The default username and password are admin, admin
• Once you logged in the system is ready to use. Congratulations!

The system is configured with the default values which in principle can be changed via the webform at: http://localhost:8080/AIMS2/db/config