diff --git a/edexOsgi/com.raytheon.uf.edex.site/res/spring/site-common.xml b/edexOsgi/com.raytheon.uf.edex.site/res/spring/site-common.xml
index 127211cfdd..0268f13326 100644
--- a/edexOsgi/com.raytheon.uf.edex.site/res/spring/site-common.xml
+++ b/edexOsgi/com.raytheon.uf.edex.site/res/spring/site-common.xml
@@ -2,10 +2,6 @@
     xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.1.xsd
   http://camel.apache.org/schema/spring http://camel.apache.org/schema/spring/camel-spring.xsd">
   
-  	<bean id="siteActivateNotifyFilter"
-		class="com.raytheon.uf.edex.site.notify.SiteActivateNotifyFilter" />
-	<bean id="siteActivationMonitor" class="com.raytheon.uf.edex.site.SiteActivationMonitor" factory-method="getInstance"/>
-  
 	<camelContext id="siteActivation" 
 		xmlns="http://camel.apache.org/schema/spring" 
 		errorHandlerRef="errorHandler">
@@ -20,16 +16,6 @@
 				</doCatch>
 			</doTry>
         </route>
-	       
-	   <route id="siteActivateNotify">
-			<from uri="vm:edex.siteActivateNotification?size=5000" />
-			<filter>
-				<method bean="siteActivateNotifyFilter" method="isSiteActivateNotification" />
-				<bean ref="siteActivationMonitor" method="handleNotification"/>
-				<bean ref="serializationUtil" method="transformToThrift" />
-				<to uri="jms-generic:topic:edex.alerts.siteActivate?timeToLive=60000" />
-			</filter>
-		</route>
 	</camelContext>
 	
 	<bean id="siteAwareRegistry" class="com.raytheon.uf.edex.site.SiteAwareRegistry" factory-method="getInstance">
diff --git a/edexOsgi/com.raytheon.uf.edex.site/res/spring/site-request.xml b/edexOsgi/com.raytheon.uf.edex.site/res/spring/site-request.xml
index c687682b49..0c2412b911 100644
--- a/edexOsgi/com.raytheon.uf.edex.site/res/spring/site-request.xml
+++ b/edexOsgi/com.raytheon.uf.edex.site/res/spring/site-request.xml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
-    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
-    xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.1.xsd">
+<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+    xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.1.xsd
+  http://camel.apache.org/schema/spring http://camel.apache.org/schema/spring/camel-spring.xsd">
   
     <bean id="ValidateConfigRequestHandler"
         class="com.raytheon.uf.edex.site.handlers.ValidateConfigRequestHandler" />
@@ -34,5 +34,24 @@
         <constructor-arg ref="getActiveSitesHandler" />
     </bean>
   
+  	<bean id="siteActivateNotifyFilter"
+		class="com.raytheon.uf.edex.site.notify.SiteActivateNotifyFilter" />
+	<bean id="siteActivationMonitor" class="com.raytheon.uf.edex.site.SiteActivationMonitor" factory-method="getInstance"/>
+  
+	<camelContext id="siteActivationMonitoring" 
+		xmlns="http://camel.apache.org/schema/spring" 
+		errorHandlerRef="errorHandler">
+		
+	   <route id="siteActivateNotify">
+			<from uri="jms-generic:topic:siteActivateNotification" />
+		    <bean ref="serializationUtil" method="transformFromThrift"/>
+			<filter>
+				<method bean="siteActivateNotifyFilter" method="isSiteActivateNotification" />
+				<bean ref="siteActivationMonitor" method="handleNotification"/>
+				<bean ref="serializationUtil" method="transformToThrift" />
+				<to uri="jms-generic:topic:edex.alerts.siteActivate?timeToLive=60000" />
+			</filter>
+		</route>
+	</camelContext>
 </beans>
   
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/edexOsgi/com.raytheon.uf.edex.site/src/com/raytheon/uf/edex/site/SiteActivationMonitor.java b/edexOsgi/com.raytheon.uf.edex.site/src/com/raytheon/uf/edex/site/SiteActivationMonitor.java
index ba627220be..14429a16e1 100644
--- a/edexOsgi/com.raytheon.uf.edex.site/src/com/raytheon/uf/edex/site/SiteActivationMonitor.java
+++ b/edexOsgi/com.raytheon.uf.edex.site/src/com/raytheon/uf/edex/site/SiteActivationMonitor.java
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ import com.raytheon.uf.common.site.notify.SiteActivationNotification;
 import com.raytheon.uf.common.site.notify.SiteActivationNotification.ACTIVATIONSTATUS;
 
 /**
- * TODO Add Description
+ * Monitors site activation across all JVMs on all cluster members
  * 
  * <pre>
  * 
@@ -38,7 +38,8 @@ import com.raytheon.uf.common.site.notify.SiteActivationNotification.ACTIVATIONS
  * 
  * Date         Ticket#    Engineer    Description
  * ------------ ---------- ----------- --------------------------
- * Aug 9, 2011            bphillip     Initial creation
+ * Aug 09, 2011            bphillip    Initial creation
+ * Sep 11, 2014  #3622     randerso    Fixed logic so failures still remove pending requests
  * 
  * </pre>
  * 
@@ -47,7 +48,6 @@ import com.raytheon.uf.common.site.notify.SiteActivationNotification.ACTIVATIONS
  */
 
 public class SiteActivationMonitor {
-
     private Map<String, Map<String, Set<String>>> activationMap = new HashMap<String, Map<String, Set<String>>>();
 
     private Map<String, Map<String, Set<String>>> deactivationMap = new HashMap<String, Map<String, Set<String>>>();
@@ -97,8 +97,8 @@ public class SiteActivationMonitor {
     public void resetFailure() {
         status = ACTIVATIONSTATUS.SUCCESS;
     }
-    
-    public ACTIVATIONSTATUS getStatus(){
+
+    public ACTIVATIONSTATUS getStatus() {
         return status;
     }
 
@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ public class SiteActivationMonitor {
                 deactivationMap.get(plugin).get(modifiedSite)
                         .add(serverAndMode);
             }
-        } else if (notification.isSuccess()) {
+        } else {
             if (notification.isActivation()) {
                 activationMap.get(plugin).get(modifiedSite)
                         .remove(serverAndMode);
@@ -143,9 +143,11 @@ public class SiteActivationMonitor {
                 deactivationMap.get(plugin).get(modifiedSite)
                         .remove(serverAndMode);
             }
-        } else if (notification.isFailure()) {
-            status = ACTIVATIONSTATUS.FAILURE;
+            if (notification.isFailure()) {
+                status = ACTIVATIONSTATUS.FAILURE;
+            }
         }
+
         return notification;
     }
 }
diff --git a/edexOsgi/com.raytheon.uf.edex.site/src/com/raytheon/uf/edex/site/notify/SendSiteActivationNotifications.java b/edexOsgi/com.raytheon.uf.edex.site/src/com/raytheon/uf/edex/site/notify/SendSiteActivationNotifications.java
index 560ce5216e..d2adc01e24 100644
--- a/edexOsgi/com.raytheon.uf.edex.site/src/com/raytheon/uf/edex/site/notify/SendSiteActivationNotifications.java
+++ b/edexOsgi/com.raytheon.uf.edex.site/src/com/raytheon/uf/edex/site/notify/SendSiteActivationNotifications.java
@@ -24,6 +24,8 @@ import java.net.UnknownHostException;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.List;
 
+import com.raytheon.uf.common.serialization.SerializationException;
+import com.raytheon.uf.common.serialization.SerializationUtil;
 import com.raytheon.uf.common.site.notify.SiteActivationNotification;
 import com.raytheon.uf.common.status.IUFStatusHandler;
 import com.raytheon.uf.common.status.UFStatus;
@@ -31,7 +33,7 @@ import com.raytheon.uf.edex.core.EDEXUtil;
 import com.raytheon.uf.edex.core.EdexException;
 
 /**
- * TODO Add Description
+ * Send site activation notifications to the SiteActivationMonitor
  * 
  * <pre>
  * 
@@ -39,8 +41,10 @@ import com.raytheon.uf.edex.core.EdexException;
  * 
  * Date         Ticket#    Engineer    Description
  * ------------ ---------- ----------- --------------------------
- * Aug 9, 2011            bphillip     Initial creation
+ * Aug 09, 2011            bphillip    Initial creation
  * Feb 15, 2013 1638       mschenke    Moved site activation notifier class into edex.site
+ * Sep 11, 2014 3622       randerso    Changed to use jms topic instead of vm queue so monitor
+ *                                     sees messages from all JVMs.
  * 
  * </pre>
  * 
@@ -52,7 +56,7 @@ public class SendSiteActivationNotifications {
     private static final transient IUFStatusHandler statusHandler = UFStatus
             .getHandler(SendSiteActivationNotifications.class);
 
-    private static String SITE_ACTIVATION_ROUTE = "siteActivateNotify";
+    public static String SITE_ACTIVATION_URI = "jms-generic:topic:siteActivateNotification?timeToLive=60000";
 
     public static void send(SiteActivationNotification notification)
             throws EdexException {
@@ -70,8 +74,14 @@ public class SendSiteActivationNotifications {
                 for (SiteActivationNotification notify : notifications) {
                     notify.setRunMode(modeName);
                     notify.setServerName(host);
-                    EDEXUtil.getMessageProducer().sendAsync(
-                            SITE_ACTIVATION_ROUTE, notify);
+                    try {
+                        EDEXUtil.getMessageProducer().sendAsyncUri(
+                                SITE_ACTIVATION_URI,
+                                SerializationUtil.transformToThrift(notify));
+                    } catch (SerializationException e) {
+                        statusHandler.error(
+                                "Error transforming notification to thrift", e);
+                    }
                 }
             } catch (EdexException e) {
                 statusHandler.error("Error sending gfe notification", e);