- activemq — starts a foreground broker on Windows
- activemq setup — creates default configurations for the activemq command on Unix, and Unix-like, platforms
- activemq start — starts a daemon broker on Unix, and Unix-like, platforms
- activemq console — starts a foreground broker on Unix, and Unix-like, platforms
- activemq restart — restarts a running broker on Unix, and Unix-like, platforms
- activemq status — checks the status of a running broker on Unix, and Unix-like, platforms
- activemq stop — shuts down a running broker on Unix, and Unix-like, platforms
- activemq-admin create — creates a new instance of the broker's file structure
- activemq-admin stop — shuts down a running broker
- activemq-admin list — lists the available brokers
- activemq-admin query — queries the for broker information on specific objects
- activemq-admin bstat — summarizes the statistics for a broker
- activemq-admin browse — browse the contents of a destination
- activemq-admin journal-audit — audits the log files of the AMQ persistence store. It does not work with the KahaDB persistence store.
- activemq-admin purge — purges messages from a destination
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The administration tool requires that brokers have JMX enabled. By default, JMX is enabled. For more information see Using JMX. |
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