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      # Install
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      To install Fuse Fabric 
  
      * [download](../download.html) the Fuse Fabric distro 
      * [checkout](../source.html) and [build](../building.html) the Fabric distro locally and untar the fabric/fuse-fabric tarball
  

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      # Start Fuse Fabric
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      To start Fuse Fabric use the following commands from a shell 

    pre
      | bin/fusefabric           (for Unix systems)
      | bin\fusefabric.bat       (for Windows systems)    
    
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      Fuse Fabric will present itself on the console as shown below
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      | fuse-fabric-1.2$ bin/fusefabric 
      | ______                  ______      _            _       
      | |  ___|                 |  ___|    | |          (_)      
      | | |_  _   _  ___   ___  | |_  __ _ | |__   _ __  _   ___ 
      | |  _|| | | |/ __| / _ \ |  _|/ _` || '_ \ | '__|| | / __|
      | | |  | |_| |\__ \|  __/ | | | (_| || |_) || |   | || (__ 
      | \_|   \__,_||___/ \___| \_|  \__,_||_.__/ |_|   |_| \___|
      |   Fuse Fabric Container (1.2)
      |   http://fuse.fusesource.org/fabric/
      |
      | Hit '<tab>' for a list of available commands
      | and '[cmd] --help' for help on a specific command.
      | Hit '<ctrl-d>' or 'osgi:shutdown' to shutdown this Fuse Fabric Container.
      |
      | Create a new Fabric via 'fabric:create'
      | or join an existing Fabric via 'fabric:join [someUrls]'
      |
      | FuseFabric:admin@root> 

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      # Create a Fabric
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      Create a new fabric on your machine via the **fabric:create** command.

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      | FuseFabric:admin@root> fabric:create

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      This creates initial Fabric registry (running a local ZooKeeper server) and importing all the default profiles.
      
      The initial profile data all comes from the [fabric/import](https://github.com/fusesource/fuse/tree/master/fabric/fuse-fabric/src/main/resources/distro/fabric/import) directory.

      You can then view the available profiles via **profile-list**

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      | FuseFabric:admin@root> profile-list
      | [id]                           [parents]
      | ode                            servicemix
      | hadoop-namenode                
      | mq                             karaf
      | example-camel                  examples, karaf
      | esb                            mq, nmr, camel
      | hadoop-datanode                
      | hadoop                         
      | example-mq                     examples
      | camel                          karaf
      | default                        
      | nmr                            karaf
      | karaf                          default
      | fabric-ensembler-0000-1        fabric-ensemble-0000
      | fabric-ensemble-0000

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      Or list the available containers via **container-list**

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      | FuseFabric:admin@root> container-list
      | [id]                           [alive]    [profiles]                       [provision status]
      | root                           true       default, fabric-ensemble-0000-1  success

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      # Create a Broker process 
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      Lets start by creating a message broker using the default **mq** profile as a child container on the **root** process, and naming the container **broker1**.
      Child containers are separate JVMs which can be connected to via the shell or JMX and started/stopped independently.

    pre
      | FuseFabric:karaf@root> container-create-child --profile mq root broker1
      | ...

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      Check that the container has been created (it can take a few seconds):  

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      | FuseFabric:admin@root> fabric:container-list
      | [id]                           [alive]    [profiles]                     [provision status]                                                                                  
      | root                           true       default, fabric-ensemble-0000-1
      | &nbsp;&nbsp;broker1                      true       mq                             success                                                                                             

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      Check that the container has been created (it can take a few seconds):  

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      | FuseFabric:admin@test> help activemq:list
      | ...

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      The message broker provides a set of commands (**activemq**) you can use to access details from the broker.
      For example running **activemq:list** will show the broker names running on the container:

    pre
      | admin@broker1> activemq:list
      | BrokerName = broker1

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      # Exit an Container 
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      After creating the message broker, we want to disconnect the container, to return to Fuse Fabric.
      You can do this by pressing `ctrl + d` in the console, or run the **logout** command:

    pre
      | FuseFabric:karaf@root> logout
      | ...
  

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      # Create a Camel process 
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      Now lets create a separate container running a Camel route using the default **example-camel** profile as a child container on the **root** process.

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      | FuseFabric:karaf@root> container-create-child --profile example-camel root camel1
      | ...

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      Check that the container has been created and started (it can take a few seconds). You can run the **container-list** command repeatably to see the current stats:  

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      | FuseFabric:admin@root> container-list
      | [id]                           [alive]    [profiles]                     [provision status]                                                                                  
      | root                           true       default, fabric-ensemble-0000-1
      | &nbsp;&nbsp;broker1                      true       mq                             success                                                                                             
      | &nbsp;&nbsp;camel1                       true       example-camel           success
  
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      Now we should be able to connect to it and list the Camel routes

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      | FuseFabric:admin@root> container-connect camel1
      | ...
      | admin@camel1> camel:list-routes 
      | [route1              ]
      | [route2              ]

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      # Running Camel Example 
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      The **example-camel** example which we just installed, will every 5th second send a message to the message broker. And the consume
      the message and print it to the log. This is implemented using the two Camel routes, which you can view in more details using **camel:info-route route1**

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      | admin@camel1> camel:info-route route1
      | ... 

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      Among the details will be statistics for number of messages processed, represented as `Exchanges Total`. We can now logout from the *camel1* container
      and connect to the message broker:

    pre
      | admin@camel1> logout
      | ...
      | FuseFabric:admin@root> container-connect broker1
      | ...

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      From the message broker container, we can view statistics from the message broker, such as the `camel-test` queue which is used by the example.
      The following command shows a number of stats for the given queue.

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      | admin@broker1> activemq:query -QQueue=camel-test
      | ...

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      # Stopping Containers and Fuse Fabric
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      You can manage containers from the Fuse Fabric shell. For example to stop the **camel1** container, you can do as shown below.
      Remember you have to in the Fuse Fabric shell, which you can notice in the prompt. If you are connected to another container, you
      can logout from the container, to get back to the Fuse Fabric container.

    pre
      | FuseFabric:admin@root> container-stop camel1
      | ... 

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      Stopping Fuse Fabric can be done from the shell, JMX or from the OS command line. From the shell you can issue the **shutdown** command,
      and enter yes in the prompt:

    pre
      | FuseFabric:admin@root> shutdown
      | Confirm: shutdown instance root (yes/no):
      | ... 

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      Congratulations, you are now started with Fuse Fabric, and have successfully managed to install two child containers. Install an example, which
      exchanges messages between the containers using the message broker.

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      # Install Fuse Fabric in a vanilla container
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      Fuse Fabric can be installed in a vanilla container such as Apache Karaf or ServiceMix.
      Run the following in an Apache Karaf (2.2.x) or ServiecMix (4.x) console:

      Notice: You cannot use Karaf 2.2.5 as it has an issue, that is being fixed in 2.2.6  

    pre
      | karaf@root> shell:source mvn:org.fusesource.fabric/fuse-fabric/#{project_version}/karaf/installer

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      The above command will install the necessary features if they are not already present (they come by default in the Fabric distro) and then
      create the initial ZooKeeper server and profiles.

       If you are using a SNAPSHOT version of Fabric, and have not build Fabric locally, then you must add the Maven repositories list,
       the location of where the Fabric SNAPSHOT artifacts is installed.
       In the "etc/org.ops4j.pax.url.mvn.cfg" file add the following entries to the "org.ops4j.pax.url.mvn.repositories" key:

    pre
      | http://repo.fusesource.com/nexus/content/repositories/snapshots@snapshots, \
      | http://repo.fusesource.com/nexus/content/groups/public


