ActiveMQ Getting Started

ActiveMQ is the most popular and powerful open source messaging and Integration Patterns server.Apache ActiveMQ is fast, supports many Cross Language Clients and Protocols, comes with easy to use Enterprise Integration Patterns and many advanced features while fully supporting JMS 1.1 and J2EE 1.4. Apache ActiveMQ is released under the Apache 2.0 License

If you have installed Websoft9 ActiveMQ, the following steps is for your quick start

Preparation

1. Get the Internet IP on your Cloud Platform
2. Check your Inbound of Security Group Rule of Cloud Console to ensure the TCP:8161 is allowed
3. Get default username and password of ActiveMQ
4. Complete Five steps for Domain if you want to use Domain for ActiveMQ.

ActiveMQ Installation

Steps for you

1. Using local Chrome or Firefox to visit the URL http://DNS:8161 or http://Internet IP:8161, you will enter installation wizard of ActiveMQ(Don't know password?)

2. Click link [Manage ActiveMQ broker] to login ActiveMQ console

3. You can reset the password by modify the file /opt/apache-activemq/conf/jetty-realm.properties

More useful ActiveMQ guide, please refer to Using Apache ActiveMQ

Having trouble?

Below is for you to solve problem, and you can contact Websoft9 Support or refer to Troubleshoot + FAQ to get more.

ActiveMQ QuickStart

Using Apache ActiveMQ

ActiveMQ Setup

Reset Password

You can reset or set the password by modity the file: /opt/apache-activemq/conf/jetty-realm.properties, then systemctl restart activemq

ActiveMQ Web Demos

ActiveMQ comes with a number of Web demos that illustrate how to use the ActiveMQ broker with REST and AJAX. The Web demos are not activated in the default configuration, so you must follow the steps below to get them running:

1. Edit the /opt/apache-activemq/examples/conf/activemq-demo.xml file and change the locations property to reflect the location of the encrypted credentials file, located at /opt/activemq/conf/credentials-enc.properties:

   <property name="locations">
         <value>file:${activemq.conf}/credentials-enc.properties</value>
   </property>

2. If the ActiveMQ server is currently running, stop it:

   systemctl stop activemq

3. Run the example:

   cd /opt/activemq
   sudo ./bin/activemq console xbean:/opt/activemq/examples/conf/activemq-demo.xml

4. The ActiveMQ broker should now start.

5. Log in to the Web administration panel and view the demos by browsing to http://Internet IP:8161/demo, If needed, use the credentials obtained from the server dashboard to log in.

Configuration

Refer to the official docs: http://activemq.apache.org/configuration.html

Reference sheet

The below items and General parameter sheet is maybe useful for you manage ActiveMQ

Path

You can check the file path by the cmd whereis of ActiveMQ, and we have prepared more detail for your reference

whereis activemq
whereis java

ActiveMQ installation directory: /opt/apache-activemq/
ActiveMQ configuration directory: /opt/apache-activemq/conf
ActiveMQ data directory: /opt/apache-activemq/data
ActiveMQ logs directory: /opt/apache-activemq/data/activemq.log

you can reset the administrator password of ActiveMQ by modify the file: /opt/apache-activemq/conf/jetty-realm.propertie

Port

Port	Use	Necessity
8161	HTTP requests for ActiveMQ Console	Optional
5672	amqp	Optional

Version

ls /opt/apache-activemq | grep activemq

Service

sudo systemctl start | stop | restart | status ActiveMQ

CLI

/opt/apache-activemq -h

API

ActiveMQ API