Socket is a service designed for sending alerts and notifications, functioning alongside Apache and RabbitMQ. It listens on port 8675 on the localhost. When you connect to Roxy-WI through your web browser, the browser establishes a connection to Apache via a websocket. Apache then proxies the requests from the websocket to the Socket service. Once the connection with the web browser is established, the Socket service begins sending notifications from other services.

Other services use RabbitMQ as a buffer, transferring all notification to it. The Socket service then retrieves these notifications and sends them out. This approach enables faster message delivery and reduces the load on the servers.

The Socket service is included in Roxy-WI repositories and can be installed using your package manager. To do this, run the following command:

After installation, create a user for RabbitMQ:

Next, go to the Admin area => Settings section, expand the RabbitMQ tab and fill in the "rabbitmq_user" and "rabbitmq_password" fields for the user. If you have installed RabbitMQ locally and are using it with the web interface, there is no need to change any other settings.