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Chapter 1. Starting a Broker

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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