Introduction
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Moving forward with SapphireIMS, post patch number SAPP_4099, it is mandatory to install SapphireIMS Message Queue Plugin as a pre-requisite component to manage your assets using agent based approach.

Pre-requisites 

1. To install SapphireIMS Message Queue Plugin it requires:
	(a) SapphireIMSMessageQueuePlugin-4.0-v1.0-Setup.exe downloadable from http://www.sapphireims.com/patches/
	(b) Pre-requisites folder containing Erlang 20.0 and RabbitMQ 3.6.12

	Note: 
	Erlang 20.0 shall be downloadable from http://erlang.org/download/otp_win64_20.0.exe (Downloadable file name: otp_win64_20.0.exe)
	RabbitMQ 3.6.12 shall be downloadable from https://dl.bintray.com/rabbitmq/windows/rabbitmq-server-windows-3.6.12.zip (Downloadable file name: rabbitmq-server-windows-3.6.12.zip)

2. Port 5672 to be made available in SapphireIMS installed machine.

3. The plugin is mandatory installation for:

	(a) SapphireIMS professional edition server
	(b) SapphireIMS enterprise edition servers (Cluster server and Cluster member/Data collector)
	(c) SapphireIMS enterprise plus edition probes and probes add-on. The installation is not needed for SapphireIMS MSP server

4. Plugin is compatible with only 64-bit version of SapphireIMS.

Installation Steps
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1.Please create a folder with the name "Pre-requisites" and copy the files otp_win64_20.0.exe and rabbitmq-server-windows-3.6.12.zip. 

NOTE: Please ensure SapphireIMSMessageQueuePlugin-4.0-v1.0-Setup.exe is not under the pre-requisites folder.

2. Double click on 'SapphireIMSMessageQueuePlugin-4.0-v1.0-Setup.exe' and follow the installation steps from the wizard.

3. On successful installation of plugin, a service name 'SapphireIMSMessageQueue' shall get created. Open services.msc to view and start it, if it is not already started.

Also, a directory call SapphireIMSMQPlugin shall get created at the SapphireIMS installation path.	

Note: Post plugin installation, 'SapphireIMS' service is made dependent on 'SapphireIMSMessageQueue' service.