Management Command Line Tool

The management plugin ships with a command line tool rabbitmqadmin which can perform the same actions as the web-based UI, and which may be more convenient for use when scripting. Note that rabbitmqadmin is just a specialised HTTP client; if you are contemplating invoking rabbitmqadmin from your own program you may want to consider using the HTTP API directly.

Obtaining rabbitmqadmin

With the management plugin installed, browse to http://server-name:55672/cli/ to download. You will need Python 2.x, 2.6 or later (i.e. not Python 3).

Alternatively, you can download the version of rabbitmqadmin which corresponds with the management plugin version 2.8.2 here.

Getting started

Unix users will probably want to copy rabbitmqadmin to /usr/local/bin.

Windows users will need to ensure Python is on their path, and invoke rabbitmqadmin as python.exe rabbitmqadmin.

Invoke rabbitmqadmin --help for usage instructions. You can:

bash completion

rabbitmqadmin supports tab completion in bash. To print a bash completion script, invoke rabbitmqadmin --bash-completion. This should be redirected to a file and sourced.

On Debian-derived systems, copy the file to /etc/bash_completion.d to make it available system-wide:

sudo sh -c 'rabbitmqadmin --bash-completion > /etc/bash_completion.d/rabbitmqadmin'

Examples

Get a list of exchanges

$ rabbitmqadmin -V test list exchanges
+-------------+---------+-------+---------+-------------+
|    name     | durable | vhost |  type   | auto_delete |
+-------------+---------+-------+---------+-------------+
|             | True    | test  | direct  | False       |
| amq.direct  | True    | test  | direct  | False       |
| amq.fanout  | True    | test  | fanout  | False       |
| amq.headers | True    | test  | headers | False       |
| amq.match   | True    | test  | headers | False       |
| amq.topic   | True    | test  | topic   | False       |
+-------------+---------+-------+---------+-------------+

Get a list of queues, with some columns specified

$ rabbitmqadmin list queues vhost name node messages message_stats.publish_details.rate
+-------+----------------------------------+-------------------+----------+------------------------------------+
| vhost |               name               |       node        | messages | message_stats.publish_details.rate |
+-------+----------------------------------+-------------------+----------+------------------------------------+
| /     | amq.gen-UELtxwb8OGJ9XHlHJq0Jug== | rabbit@smacmullen | 0        | 100.985821591                      |
| /     | test                             | rabbit@misstiny   | 5052     | 100.985821591                      |
+-------+----------------------------------+-------------------+----------+------------------------------------+

Get a list of queues, with all the detail we can take

$ rabbitmqadmin -f long -d 3 list queues

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

                                       vhost: /
                                        name: amq.gen-UELtxwb8OGJ9XHlHJq0Jug==
                                 auto_delete: False
    backing_queue_status.avg_ack_egress_rate: 100.944672225
   backing_queue_status.avg_ack_ingress_rate: 100.944672225

and so on, and on...

Connect to another host as another user

$ rabbitmqadmin -H myserver -u simon -p simon list vhosts
+------+
| name |
+------+
| /    |
+------+

Declare an exchange

$ rabbitmqadmin declare exchange name=my-new-exchange type=fanout
exchange declared

Declare a queue, with optional parameters

$ rabbitmqadmin declare queue name=my-new-queue durable=false
queue declared

Publish a message

$ rabbitmqadmin publish exchange=amq.default routing_key=test payload="hello, world"
Message published

And get it back

$ rabbitmqadmin get queue=test requeue=false
+-------------+----------+---------------+--------------+------------------+-------------+
| routing_key | exchange | message_count |   payload    | payload_encoding | redelivered |
+-------------+----------+---------------+--------------+------------------+-------------+
| test        |          | 0             | hello, world | string           | False       |
+-------------+----------+---------------+--------------+------------------+-------------+

Export configuration

$ rabbitmqadmin export rabbit.config
Exported configuration for localhost to "rabbit.config"

Import configuration, quietly

$ rabbitmqadmin -q import rabbit.config

Close all connections

$ rabbitmqadmin -f tsv -q list connections name | while read conn ; do rabbitmqadmin -q close connection name=${conn} ; done

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