Hi there, 

I have a Cloudstack instance running v4.3.

On a separate server, I have setup RabbitMQ, running on CentOS 6.5 by following the steps below:

rpm -ivh http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/$(arch)/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm

sudo yum install -y erlang

rpm --import http://www.rabbitmq.com/rabbitmq-signing-key-public.asc
sudo yum install -y rabbitmq-server.noarch

sudo chkconfig rabbitmq-server on

I've opened port 5672 through the firewall solely to the Cloudstack instance.

I have permitted remote users to connect with the following configuration:

cat /etc/rabbitmq/rabbitmq.config

[

  {rabbit, [{loopback_users, []}]}

].

I have removed the guest user, created a new user, provided that user with administrator privileges and allowed that user permissions over the default zone '/'

rabbitmqctl add_user rabbituser password123

rabbitmqctl set_user_tags rabbituser administrator

set_permissions -p / rabbituser ".*" ".*" ".*"

I have setup the following file on my Cloudstack instance and restarted Cloudstack:

cat /etc/cloudstack/management/componentContext.xml

<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans";

       xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";

       xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context";

       xmlns:aop="http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop";

       xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans

                           http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd

                           http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop

                           http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop-3.0.xsd

                           http://www.springframework.org/schema/context

                           http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.0.xsd";>

    <bean id="eventNotificationBus" class="org.apache.cloudstack.mom.rabbitmq.RabbitMQEventBus">

        <property name="name" value="eventNotificationBus"/>

        <property name="server" value="192.168.1.12"/>

        <property name="port" value="5672"/>

        <property name="username" value="rabbituser"/>

        <property name="password" value="password123"/>

        <property name="exchange" value="cloudstack-events"/>

    </bean>

</beans>  

sudo /etc/init.d/cloudstack-management stop && sudo /etc/init.d/cloudstack-management start

I can telnet from the Cloudstack instance to the RabbitMQ instance on port 5672 successfully.

I have then used tcpdump on both the Cloudstack instance and the RabbitMQ instance to look for traffic on port 5672 but there is none. Nothing is initiated by the Cloudstack instance.

Is /etc/cloudstack/management/componentContext.xml the correct location for this file? I cannot see anything erroneous in the cloudstack-management log file that shows it being picked up at all. 

Have I missed something or is there a more verbose guide available than those detailed at http://cloudstack.apache.org/docs/en-US/Apache_CloudStack/4.1.1/html/Admin_Guide/events.html ?

Thanks