Configure {page-component-title} components to use your existing ActiveMQ instance.

.Create a properties file for the ActiveMQ settings
[source, console]
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sudo vi etc/opennms.properties.d/activemq.properties
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.Disable embedded ActiveMQ and set the credentials for your ActiveMQ endpoints
[source, activemq.properties]
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org.opennms.activemq.broker.disable=true<1>
org.opennms.activemq.broker.url=failover:tcp://my-activemq:61616<2>
org.opennms.activemq.broker.username=my-activemq-user<3>
org.opennms.activemq.broker.password=my-activemq-password<4>
org.opennms.activemq.client.max-connections=8<5>
org.opennms.activemq.client.concurrent-consumers=10<6>
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<1> Disable embedded ActiveMQ in {page-component-title} Core instance.
<2> Set the URL endpoint to your dedicated ActiveMQ instance. Replace `my-active-mq:61616` accordingly. If you use ActiveMQ with SSL, replace `tcp` with `ssl`.
<3> Set a user name for ActiveMQ authentication.
<4> Set the password for ActiveMQ authentication.
<5> By default we allow a maximum of 8 connections. Increase it depending on your size.
<6> By default we allow a maximum of 10 concurrent consumers. Increase it depending on your size.

.Restart {page-component-title} Core instance to apply the changes
[source, console]
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sudo systemctl restart opennms
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