Chapter 3. Shutting Down a Broker

Abstract

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

Goals

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

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

Procedure for Windows

To shutdown a broker on Windows:

Add the JBoss A-MQ command line tools your path by entering
```
c:\ set PATH=%PATH%;InstallDir\bin
```
Shutdown the broker instance by entering
```
c:\ stop
```

Procedure for Unix/Linux/OSX

To start a broker:

Add the JBoss A-MQ command line tools your path by entering
```
% set PATH=$PATH;InstallDir/bin
```
Shutdown the broker by entering
```
% stop
```

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