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Broker Administration Tutorials

Red Hat JBoss A-MQ

Simple recipes for managing a message broker

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Version 6.0

Copyright © 2013 Red Hat, Inc. and/or its affiliates.

13 Oct 2017

Abstract

This set of tutorials walks you through some basic management tasks.

Chapter 1. Starting a Broker
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Abstract

In this tutorial you will launch a Red Hat JBoss A-MQ instance from the command line.

Goals
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In this tutorial you will:
  • add the Red Hat JBoss A-MQ command line tools to your system path
  • start a JBoss A-MQ instance

Prerequisites
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This tutorial requires that you have JBoss A-MQ installed.

Procedure for Windows
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To start a broker on Windows:
  1. Open a command prompt at the instance's root folder.
  2. Add the JBoss A-MQ command line tools your path by entering 
    c:\ set PATH=%PATH%;InstallDir\bin
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  3. Start the broker instance by entering 
    c:\ start
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Procedure for Unix/Linux/OSX
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To start a broker:
  1. Open a command prompt at the instance's root folder.
  2. Add the JBoss A-MQ command line tools your path by entering 
    % set PATH=$PATH;InstallDir/bin
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  3. Start the broker instance by entering 
    start
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Abstract

In this tutorial you will install a Red Hat JBoss A-MQ instance as a Windows service.

Goals
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In this tutorial you will:
  • generate the service wrapper
  • configure the Java Wrapper Service for your system
  • install a broker instance as a Windows service
  • configure the broker's service to start up automatically

Prerequisites
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This tutorial requires that you have Red Hat JBoss A-MQ installed on a Windows computer to which you have administrative privileges.

Procedure
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To install JBoss A-MQ as a Windows service:
  1. Start JBoss A-MQ in console mode using the amq command.
  2. Once the console is started and the command prompt appears, enter features:install wrapper.
    The features:install command will locate the required libraries to provision the wrapper feature and deploy it into the run time.
  3. Generate the wrapper by entering wrapper:install -n JBossMQ -d JBossMQ -D "JBossMQ Broker".
    You should see the output shown in Example 2.1, “Wrapper Install Output”.

    Example 2.1. Wrapper Install Output

    Creating file: InstallDir\bin\FuseMQ-wrapper.exe Creating file: InstallDir\bin\JBossMQ-service.bat Creating file: InstallDir\etc\JBossMQ-wrapper.conf Creating file: InstallDir\lib\libwrapper.so Creating file: InstallDir\lib\karaf-wrapper.jar Creating file: InstallDir\lib\karaf-wrapper-main.jar Setup complete. You may wish to tweak the JVM properties in the wrapper config ration file: InstallDir\etc\JBossMQ-wrapper.conf before installing and starting the service. To install the service, run: C:> InstallDir\bin\JBossMQ-service.bat install Once installed, to start the service run: C:> net start "JBossMQ" Once running, to stop the service run: C:> net stop "JBossMQ" Once stopped, to remove the installed the service run: C:> InstallDir\bin\karaf-service.bat remove
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  4. Open InstallDir\etc\JBossMQ-wrapper.conf in a text editor.
    The ServiceName-wrapper.conf file configures the Java Wrapper Service that JBoss A-MQ uses to create a Windows service.
  5. Change the line containing set.default.KARAF_HOME= to 
    set.default.KARAF_HOME=InstallDir
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    This tells the wrapper where the JBoss A-MQ installation is located so it can find the required libraries.
  6. Change the line containing set.default.KARAF_BASE to 
    set.default.KARAF_BASE=InstallDir
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    This tells the wrapper where to find the configuration and data files for the broker instance being used for the service.
  7. Change the line containing set.default.KARAF_DATA to 
    set.default.KARAF_BASE=InstallDir\data
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    This tells the wrapper where to find the configuration and data files for the broker instance being used for the service.
  8. Save the file.
  9. Open a command prompt.
  10. Change to the InstallDir directory.
  11. Install the broker as a Windows service by running bin\JBossMQ-service.bat install.
  12. From the Windows Start menu select Start → Control Panel → Administrative Tools → Services.
    The Services window opens.
  13. Double click JBossMQ from the list of services.
    The JBossMQ Properties window opens.
  14. Specify that the service will start up when you login by selecting Automatic from the Startup Type drop-down list.
  15. Click OK.
  16. Open the context menu for the JBossMQ entry in the service list.
  17. Select Start to start the broker.

Further steps
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You can stop the broker service by selecting Stop in the Service window's context menu.
To uninstall the broker as a Windows service use InstallDir\bin\JBossMQ-service.bat removes.

Chapter 3. Shutting Down a Broker
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Abstract

This tutorial demonstrates how to shutdown a locally running message broker.

Goals
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In this tutorial you will:
  • add the Red Hat JBoss A-MQ command line tools to your system path
  • stop a locally running JBoss A-MQ instance

Prerequisites
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To complete this tutorial you will need to have a broker instance running locally.

Procedure for Windows
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To shutdown a broker on Windows:
  1. Add the JBoss A-MQ command line tools your path by entering 
    c:\ set PATH=%PATH%;InstallDir\bin
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  2. Shutdown the broker instance by entering 
    c:\ stop
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Procedure for Unix/Linux/OSX
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To start a broker:
  1. Add the JBoss A-MQ command line tools your path by entering 
    % set PATH=$PATH;InstallDir/bin
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  2. Shutdown the broker by entering 
    % stop
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