Installing ActiveMQ

 

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What Does ActiveMQ Do?

Prerequisites

Download ActiveMQ

Run ActiveMQ

Access Monitoring Page

What Does ActiveMQ Do?

ActiveMQ is a message queueing service that handles messages between ATS Bus and MES.

Prerequisites

Java is required for ActiveMQ to be installed.

For further prerequisite information refer to the following website:

http://activemq.apache.org/getting-started.html#GettingStarted-Pre-InstallationRequirements

Download ActiveMQ

1.     Download ActiveMQ from the from one of the mirror sites at the following address:

http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi?path=/activemq/5.12.1/apache-activemq-5.12.1-bin.zip

2.     Extract the archive locally.

Run ActiveMQ

1.     Open the Command Prompt.

2.     Execute the following command:

<location of extracted archive>\apache-activemq-5.12.1\bin\ activemq-admin.bat start

ActiveMQ is now running.

Closing the Command Prompt will close ActiveMQ.

Access Monitoring Page

Once ActiveMQ has been installed it's possible to access a monitoring page in the web browser. This can be seen at the following location:

localhost:8161

It can be accessed using the following credentials:

Username: admin

Password: admin