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 IT bus stops and IT systems.

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