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canellas
canellas

Reputation: 697

find where activemq is running

I am starting to study ActiveMQ, and there is one question that I must have the answer as soon as possible: is it possible for a, say, console program, to know the IP of the machine where ActiveMQ is running without any previous information, like configuration file, or a parameter passed to the program? I wonder if ActiveMQ answers to some type of broadcast network message, reporting the IP of the computer it is running.

Thanks!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 713

Answers (2)

Tim Bish
Tim Bish

Reputation: 18376

While your question is a bit vague on actual requirements and network capabilities etc, the most reasonable answer to this is to use discovery via multicast to locate a broker to connect to. There is documentation for this here, here, here and some here and more if you bother to search Google.

When you enable discovery on the broker's transport connector it will broadcast via multicast the IP address and port where a client can connect. You should do some research and even browse the ActiveMQ code to see how this works.

Upvotes: 2

Tim
Tim

Reputation: 2027

No, that's not possible. If all of the world's ActiveMQ servers were broadcasting their connection info to every producer or consumer in the world, that would be a ton of traffic. And if they were, how's a producer of consumer supposed to know which one to connect to, without being told? You have to tell the client how to reach the broker, and it's not a big deal to do.

Upvotes: -1

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