## Stopping a Broker

### Terminating the broker process

You can stop a running broker; on both Windows and UNIX by pressing Ctrl+C in the command window or terminal in which the process is running.

### Stopping using the Admin tool

To stop a broker using 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 stop `Hostname``

   - UNIX:

     `./activemq-admin stop `Hostname``

### Killing a background process on UNIX

If FUSE Message Broker was started in the background on UNIX, first identify the process ID by typing the following in a terminal window:

`ps -ef|grep activemq`

Then kill the process by typing the following:

`kill `PID``