RabbitMQ is an open source message broker software that implements the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP). It is written in the Erlang programming language. Here are steps to install rabbitmq on Ubuntu Linux (14.04.3 LTS)
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Add rabbitmq public key to trusted keys
$ wget https://www.rabbitmq.com/rabbitmq-signing-key-public.asc $ sudo apt-key add rabbitmq-signing-key-public.asc
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Update package source list to add rabbitmq source and resynchronize the package index files.
$ sudo sh -c "echo 'deb http://www.rabbitmq.com/debian/ testing main' > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/rabbitmq.list" $ sudo apt-get update
- Check where will rabbitmq be installed from
$ apt-cache policy rabbitmq-server rabbitmq-server: Installed: 3.6.1-1 Candidate: 3.6.1-1 Version table: *** 3.6.1-1 0 500 http://www.rabbitmq.com/debian/ testing/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 3.2.4-1 0 500 http://us-west-1.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages - Install rabbitmq
$ sudo apt-get install rabbitmq-server
- List rabbitmq-server package version details
$ dpkg -l rabbitmq-server Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Architecture Description +++-==============================-====================-====================-================================================================== ii rabbitmq-server 3.6.1-1 all Multi-protocol messaging broker
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Look at rabbitmq log files
$ ls -l /var/log/rabbitmq/ total 8 -rw-r--r-- 1 rabbitmq rabbitmq 2285 Mar 3 06:42 rabbit@ip-172-30-0-211.log -rw-r--r-- 1 rabbitmq rabbitmq 0 Mar 2 15:14 rabbit@ip-172-30-0-211-sasl.log -rw-r--r-- 1 rabbitmq rabbitmq 0 Mar 2 15:14 startup_err -rw-r--r-- 1 rabbitmq rabbitmq 362 Mar 2 15:14 startup_log $ cat /var/log/rabbitmq/startup_log RabbitMQ 3.6.1. Copyright (C) 2007-2016 Pivotal Software, Inc. ## ## Licensed under the MPL. See http://www.rabbitmq.com/ ## ## ########## Logs: /var/log/rabbitmq/rabbit@ip-172-30-0-211.log ###### ## /var/log/rabbitmq/rabbit@ip-172-30-0-211-sasl.log ########## Starting broker... completed with 0 plugins. -
Check if rabbitmq is setup to auto-start at boot
$ ls -l /etc/rc*.d/*rabbit* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 Mar 2 15:14 /etc/rc0.d/K20rabbitmq-server -> ../init.d/rabbitmq-server lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 Mar 2 15:14 /etc/rc1.d/K20rabbitmq-server -> ../init.d/rabbitmq-server lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 Mar 2 15:14 /etc/rc2.d/S20rabbitmq-server -> ../init.d/rabbitmq-server lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 Mar 2 15:14 /etc/rc3.d/S20rabbitmq-server -> ../init.d/rabbitmq-server lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 Mar 2 15:14 /etc/rc4.d/S20rabbitmq-server -> ../init.d/rabbitmq-server lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 Mar 2 15:14 /etc/rc5.d/S20rabbitmq-server -> ../init.d/rabbitmq-server lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 Mar 2 15:14 /etc/rc6.d/K20rabbitmq-server -> ../init.d/rabbitmq-server
Presence of these syblinks shows that rabbitmq will start on its own at boot time. Note that rabbitmq is a service based on sysv init. You may also want to visit Ubuntu – how to auto start services on boot using update-rc.d (sysv init).
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Check status of rabbitmq-server service
$ sudo service rabbitmq-server status
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View rabbitmq system limits in rabbitmq config file.
$ cat /etc/default/rabbitmq-server # This file is sourced by /etc/init.d/rabbitmq-server. Its primary # reason for existing is to allow adjustment of system limits for the # rabbitmq-server process. # # Maximum number of open file handles. This will need to be increased # to handle many simultaneous connections. Refer to the system # documentation for ulimit (in man bash) for more information. # #ulimit -n 1024
You may want to consider increasing ulimit value in production.
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List rabbitmq exchanges
$ sudo rabbitmqctl list_exchanges Listing exchanges ... amq.rabbitmq.trace topic amq.rabbitmq.log topic amq.match headers amq.headers headers amq.topic topic amq.direct direct amq.fanout fanout direct
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List queues (for fresh install there won’t be any queue)
$ sudo rabbitmqctl list_queues
