## Creating a Broker

### Overview

The Admin tool's create task allows you to create a directory structure for an instance of a broker. This is useful if you want to avoid FUSE Message Broker's default directory structure whereby data and binaries are stored under the same location.

For example, the following command creates a `broker1` directory under your home directory:

./activemq-admin create ~/broker1

The `broker1` directory contains the minimal start scripts and configuration files needed to run an instance of FUSE Message Broker, as shown in Figure 1.1.

Figure 1.1. Directory Structure Generated by activemq-admin create

You run the broker1 script to start an instance of FUSE Message Broker, named broker1. This adds a `data` directory to below the `broker1` directory, where the messages handled by broker1 are stored.