Installation and Setup of Apache ActiveMQ
Posted by William Brant on Mon, May 09, 2011 @ 07:05 PM
This blog will detail how to install, Setup and test Apaches Active MQ on a Linux server.
Pre Requisites
You will need to have installed and configured and instance of java on your server. How to do this is covered in a previous blog post.
Installation
Getting started you will need to download the latest version of apaches activeMQ service from (http://activemq.apache.org/activemq-550-release.html). Look for the heading “Getting the Binary Distributions” and select the download link for the linux packages. The file name should be “apache-activemq-5.5.0-bin.tar.gz” and the size of the download is approximately 27 Megs
Once you have downloaded the distribution you will need to prepare the linux server for the installation. You will need to create a directory called ActiveMQ under the /opt directory. To do this you can either perform the operation using the GUI or through a terminal window.
To create the directory open a terminal window and execure the following commands.
- Cd /opt
- Mkdir /Ac tiveMQ
- Copy the installation file from the download location to /opt/
- Unzip the compressed download files using command gunzip activemq-5.5.0-bin.tar.gz
- Untar the file into the directory ActiveMQ using command tar -xvf apache-activemq-5.5.0-bin.tar -C /opt/ActiveMQ/
Startup ApacheMQ
To startup apacheMQ you wll need to change into the bin directory /opt/ActiveMQ/bin
Execute command
If the launch is successful you should see output similar to the sample image below.
Testing the ActiveMQ installation
The Apache ActiveMQ service has a administrative console. To check if the service I running correctly you simply need to connect admin or camel console. The URL to connect are provided below
Image of Admin Console
Image of Camel Console
To fully test the system you should create a Queue and send a test message.
Creating a Queue
To create a new queue you need to click on the queues item in the purples bar just underneath the ActiveMQ banner. Put in the Queue Name ”GreyTower” and then click on the create button.
After clicking on the create button the new queue should show up on the screen as shown in the image below.
Send a test Message
To send a test message we will need to click on the send button and set the Destination field to GreyTower and type in a example message as shown in the image below.
Now click on the send button at the bottom of the form and you should be taken to a screen that shows the “GreyTower” queue as shown in the image below
Now if you click on the “GreyTower” Queue Destination you will be taken to a screen that shows a list of messages in the queue.
To look at the actual contents of the message just click on the message iD and you will be take to a screen that show the message contents and properties. An example is shown below
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