How to install ActiveMQ on a workstation or serverActiveMQ can be installed by following the guide on http://activemq.apache.org/getting-started.html.
The default tcp port for the http administration page is 8161 and the tcp port for the broker itself is 61616, so these two ports must be opened for incoming connections in surrounding firewalls. If the ActiveMQ instance participates in a network of brokers, firewalls must be open for outgoing connections to these ActiveMQ instances' ports