## Introducing the Admin Tool

### Overview

The FUSE Message Broker Admin tool allows you to perform the following tasks from the command line:

- Start and stop a broker

- Create a runnable instance of a broker

- List all available brokers in the specified JMX context

- Display a selected broker's components and attributes

- Display selected messages on a specified destination

- View records stored in the performance journal

### Running the Admin tool

To run the Admin tool:

1. In a command prompt or terminal window, change directory to the FUSE Message Broker installation directory.

2. Change directory to the `bin` directory.

3. Type the following:

   - Windows:

     `activemq-admin`

   - UNIX:

     `./activemq-admin`

A list of tasks that you can call using the using the Admin tool is returned. These tasks are:

- start

- create

- stop

- list

- query

- bstat

- browse

- journal-audit

Each task is described in the following sections. For additional information, see the Apache ActiveMQ Command Line Tools Reference.

### Getting help

To display help on the Admin tool type the activemq-admin command followed by any of the following:

- `-h`

- `-?`

- `--help`

To display help on a particular task, type activemq-admin `taskname` followed by `-h`, `-?`, or `--help`.

### Displaying version information

To display version information for FUSE Message Broker, type either of the following:

activemq-admin --version

activemq --version