Chapter 1. Starting a Broker

Abstract

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

Goals

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

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

Procedure for Windows

To start a broker on Windows:

Open a command prompt at the instance's root folder.
Add the JBoss A-MQ command line tools your path by entering
```
c:\ set PATH=%PATH%;InstallDir\bin
```
Start the broker instance by entering
```
c:\ start
```

Procedure for Unix/Linux/OSX

To start a broker:

Open a command prompt at the instance's root folder.
Add the JBoss A-MQ command line tools your path by entering
```
% set PATH=$PATH;InstallDir/bin
```
Start the broker instance by entering
```
start
```

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