(Including HiveMQ Swarm, Enterprise Security Extension, HiveMQ Kafka Extension, HiveMQ Distributed Tracing Extension, HiveMQ Enterprise Extension for Google Cloud Pub Sub and HiveMQ Enterprise Extension for Amazon Kinesis)
Limitations
- Trial versions are only for evaluation and testing purposes. Production usage is prohibited.
- Up to 25 connections are allowed. Please contact us if you require additional connections.
- The evaluation version of all Enterprise Extensions is limited to operate for only 5 hours. You will need to restart HiveMQ each time you want to reset the 5 hour limit. Please contact us if you would like a longer evaluation license.
- You can use the trial version without charge for up to 6 months after the download.
Getting started
Install HiveMQ
Pre-installation Requirements
To install HiveMQ, you need Windows, Linux, or Mac OS X with Java Runtime Environment 11 or newer. For a more detailed list of requirements, see HiveMQ System Requirements.
Unpack and run on Linux/Mac OS X
Go to the directory where you placed the download and unpack the ZIP archive, open a terminal window and enter the following commands:
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To go to the bin folder of the install directory and set permissions (the typical location is /opt/hivemq/). The chmod 775 command gives the user/owner and groups read, write, and execute rights. All others have read-only access:
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To run the shell script and get HiveMQ started, enter:
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Unpack and run on Windows
Use your file browser to extract the ZIP archive to the directory of your choice.
- To start the batch file, open the bin folder and double click
run.bat. - By default, the HiveMQ broker starts on localhost IP address
127.0.0.1and listens on port1883.
Verify that HiveMQ is running
- Navigate with your browser to
http://localhost:8080. If you see the login dialog for the HiveMQ Control Center, you know that HiveMQ is up and running. - The HiveMQ Control Center is part of the standard HiveMQ distribution and is a web application that you can access from your browser. You do not need to install any additional software on your computer to use the control center.
You can login with the default credentials (user:
admin password: hivemq)
Any MQTT client can be connected to HiveMQ on port 1883 now.