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<refentry lang="en">
  <refentryinfo>
    <productname>RabbitMQ Server</productname>
    <authorgroup>
      <corpauthor>The RabbitMQ Team &lt;<ulink url="mailto:info@rabbitmq.com"><email>info@rabbitmq.com</email></ulink>&gt;</corpauthor>
    </authorgroup>
  </refentryinfo>

  <refmeta>
    <refentrytitle>rabbitmqctl</refentrytitle>
    <manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
    <refmiscinfo class="manual">RabbitMQ Service</refmiscinfo>
  </refmeta>

  <refnamediv>
    <refname>rabbitmqctl</refname>
    <refpurpose>command line tool for managing a RabbitMQ broker</refpurpose>
  </refnamediv>

  <refsynopsisdiv>
    <cmdsynopsis>
      <command>rabbitmqctl</command>
      <arg choice="opt">-n <replaceable>node</replaceable></arg>
      <arg choice="opt">-q</arg>
      <arg choice="req"><replaceable>command</replaceable></arg>
      <arg choice="opt" rep="repeat"><replaceable>command options</replaceable></arg>
    </cmdsynopsis>
  </refsynopsisdiv>

  <refsect1>
    <title>Description</title>
    <para>
      RabbitMQ is an implementation of AMQP, the emerging standard for high
      performance enterprise messaging. The RabbitMQ server is a robust and
      scalable implementation of an AMQP broker.
    </para>
    <para>
      <command>rabbitmqctl</command> is a command line tool for managing a
      RabbitMQ broker. It performs all actions by connecting to one of the
      broker's nodes.
    </para>
  </refsect1>

  <refsect1>
    <title>Options</title>
    <variablelist>
      <varlistentry>
        <term><cmdsynopsis><arg choice="opt">-n <replaceable>node</replaceable></arg></cmdsynopsis></term>
        <listitem>
          <para role="usage">
            Default node is "rabbit@server", where server is the local host.  On
            a host named "server.example.com", the node name of the RabbitMQ
            Erlang node will usually be rabbit@server (unless RABBITMQ_NODENAME
            has been set to some non-default value at broker startup time).  The
            output of <command>hostname -s</command> is usually the correct suffix to use after the
            "@" sign. See rabbitmq-server(1) for details of configuring the
            RabbitMQ broker.
          </para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
      <varlistentry>
        <term><cmdsynopsis><arg choice="opt">-q</arg></cmdsynopsis></term>
        <listitem>
          <para role="usage">
            Quiet output mode is selected with the "-q" flag. Informational
            messages are suppressed when quiet mode is in effect.
          </para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
    </variablelist>
  </refsect1>

  <refsect1>
    <title>Commands</title>

    <refsect2>
      <title>Application and Cluster Management</title>

      <variablelist>
        <varlistentry>
          <term><cmdsynopsis><command>stop</command></cmdsynopsis></term>
          <listitem>
            <para>
              Stops the Erlang node on which RabbitMQ is running. To
              restart the node follow the instructions for <citetitle>Running
              the Server</citetitle> in the <ulink url="http://www.rabbitmq.com/install.html">installation
              guide</ulink>.
            </para>
            <para role="example-prefix">For example:</para>
            <screen role="example">rabbitmqctl stop</screen>
            <para role="example">
              This command instructs the RabbitMQ node to terminate.
            </para>
          </listitem>
        </varlistentry>

        <varlistentry id="stop_app">
          <term><cmdsynopsis><command>stop_app</command></cmdsynopsis></term>
          <listitem>
            <para>
              Stops the RabbitMQ application, leaving the Erlang node
              running.
            </para>
            <para>
              This command is typically run prior to performing other
              management actions that require the RabbitMQ application
              to be stopped, e.g. <link
                    linkend="reset"><command>reset</command></link>.
            </para>
            <para role="example-prefix">For example:</para>
            <screen role="example">rabbitmqctl stop_app</screen>
            <para role="example">
              This command instructs the RabbitMQ node to stop the
              RabbitMQ application.
            </para>
          </listitem>
        </varlistentry>

        <varlistentry>
          <term><cmdsynopsis><command>start_app</command></cmdsynopsis></term>
          <listitem>
            <para>
              Starts the RabbitMQ application.
            </para>
            <para>
              This command is typically run after performing other
              management actions that required the RabbitMQ application
              to be stopped, e.g. <link
                    linkend="reset"><command>reset</command></link>.
            </para>
            <para role="example-prefix">For example:</para>
            <screen role="example">rabbitmqctl start_app</screen>
            <para role="example">
              This command instructs the RabbitMQ node to start the
              RabbitMQ application.
            </para>
          </listitem>
        </varlistentry>

        <varlistentry>
          <term><cmdsynopsis><command>status</command></cmdsynopsis></term>
          <listitem>
            <para>
              Displays various information about the RabbitMQ broker,
              such as whether the RabbitMQ application on the current
              node, its version number, what nodes are part of the
              broker, which of these are running.
            </para>
            <para role="example-prefix">For example:</para>
            <screen role="example">rabbitmqctl status</screen>
            <para role="example">
              This command displays information about the RabbitMQ
              broker.
            </para>
          </listitem>
        </varlistentry>

        <varlistentry id="reset">
          <term><cmdsynopsis><command>reset</command></cmdsynopsis></term>
          <listitem>
            <para>
              Return a RabbitMQ node to its virgin state.
            </para>
            <para>
              Removes the node from any cluster it belongs to, removes
              all data from the management database, such as configured
              users and vhosts, and deletes all persistent
              messages.
            </para>
            <para>
              For <command>reset</command> and <command>force_reset</command> to
              succeed the RabbitMQ application must have been stopped,
              e.g. with <link linkend="stop_app"><command>stop_app</command></link>.
            </para>
            <para role="example-prefix">For example:</para>
            <screen role="example">rabbitmqctl reset</screen>
            <para role="example">
              This command resets the RabbitMQ node.
            </para>
          </listitem>
        </varlistentry>

        <varlistentry>
          <term><cmdsynopsis><command>force_reset</command></cmdsynopsis></term>
          <listitem>
            <para>
              Forcefully return a RabbitMQ node to its virgin state.
            </para>
            <para>
              The <command>force_reset</command> command differs from
              <command>reset</command> in that it resets the node
              unconditionally, regardless of the current management
              database state and cluster configuration. It should only
              be used as a last resort if the database or cluster
              configuration has been corrupted.
            </para>
            <para>
              For <command>reset</command> and <command>force_reset</command> to
              succeed the RabbitMQ application must have been stopped,
              e.g. with <link linkend="stop_app"><command>stop_app</command></link>.
            </para>
            <para role="example-prefix">For example:</para>
            <screen role="example">rabbitmqctl force_reset</screen>
            <para role="example">
              This command resets the RabbitMQ node.
            </para>
          </listitem>
        </varlistentry>

        <varlistentry>
          <term><cmdsynopsis><command>rotate_logs</command> <arg choice="req"><replaceable>suffix</replaceable></arg></cmdsynopsis></term>
          <listitem>
            <para>
              Instruct the RabbitMQ node to rotate the log files.
            </para>
            <para>
              The RabbitMQ broker will attempt to append the current contents
              of the log file to the file with name composed of the original
              name and the suffix.
              It will create a new file if such a file does not already exist.
              When no <option>suffix</option> is specified, the empty log file is
              simply created at the original location; no rotation takes place.
            </para>
            <para>
              When an error occurs while appending the contents of the old log
              file, the operation behaves in the same way as if no <option>suffix</option> was
              specified.
            </para>
            <para>
              This command might be helpful when you are e.g. writing your
              own logrotate script and you do not want to restart the RabbitMQ
              node.
            </para>
            <para role="example-prefix">For example:</para>
            <screen role="example">rabbitmqctl rotate_logs .1</screen>
            <para role="example">
              This command instructs the RabbitMQ node to append the current content
              of the log files to the files with names consisting of the original logs'
              names and ".1" suffix, e.g. rabbit.log.1. Finally, the old log files are reopened.
            </para>
          </listitem>
        </varlistentry>
      </variablelist>
    </refsect2>

    <refsect2>
      <title>Cluster management</title>

      <variablelist>
        <varlistentry id="cluster">
          <term><cmdsynopsis><command>cluster</command> <arg choice="req" role="usage-option-list"><replaceable>clusternode</replaceable> ...</arg></cmdsynopsis></term>
          <listitem>
            <variablelist>
              <varlistentry>
                <term>clusternode</term>
                <listitem><para>Subset of the nodes of the cluster to which this node should be connected.</para></listitem>
              </varlistentry>
            </variablelist>
            <para>
              Instruct the node to become member of a cluster with the
              specified nodes.  To cluster with currently offline nodes,
              use <link linkend="force_cluster"><command>force_cluster</command></link>.
            </para>
            <para>
              Cluster nodes can be of two types: disk or ram. Disk nodes
              replicate data in ram and on disk, thus providing
              redundancy in the event of node failure and recovery from
              global events such as power failure across all nodes. Ram
              nodes replicate data in ram only and are mainly used for
              scalability. A cluster must always have at least one disk node.
            </para>
            <para>
              If the current node is to become a disk node it needs to
              appear in the cluster node list. Otherwise it becomes a
              ram node. If the node list is empty or only contains the
              current node then the node becomes a standalone,
              i.e. non-clustered, (disk) node.
            </para>
            <para>
              After executing the <command>cluster</command> command, whenever
              the RabbitMQ application is started on the current node it
              will attempt to connect to the specified nodes, thus
              becoming an active node in the cluster comprising those
              nodes (and possibly others).
            </para>
            <para>
              The list of nodes does not have to contain all the
              cluster's nodes; a subset is sufficient. Also, clustering
              generally succeeds as long as at least one of the
              specified nodes is active. Hence adjustments to the list
              are only necessary if the cluster configuration is to be
              altered radically.
            </para>
            <para>
              For this command to succeed the RabbitMQ application must
              have been stopped, e.g. with <link linkend="stop_app"><command>stop_app</command></link>. Furthermore,
              turning a standalone node into a clustered node requires
              the node be <link linkend="reset"><command>reset</command></link> first,
              in order to avoid accidental destruction of data with the
              <command>cluster</command> command.
            </para>
            <para>
              For more details see the <ulink url="http://www.rabbitmq.com/clustering.html">clustering guide</ulink>.
            </para>
            <para role="example-prefix">For example:</para>
            <screen role="example">rabbitmqctl cluster rabbit@tanto hare@elena</screen>
            <para role="example">
              This command instructs the RabbitMQ node to join the
              cluster with nodes <command>rabbit@tanto</command> and
              <command>hare@elena</command>. If the node is one of these then
              it becomes a disk node, otherwise a ram node.
            </para>
          </listitem>
        </varlistentry>
        <varlistentry id="force_cluster">
          <term><cmdsynopsis><command>force_cluster</command> <arg choice="req" role="usage-option-list"><replaceable>clusternode</replaceable> ...</arg></cmdsynopsis></term>
          <listitem>
            <variablelist>
              <varlistentry>
                <term>clusternode</term>
                <listitem><para>Subset of the nodes of the cluster to which this node should be connected.</para></listitem>
              </varlistentry>
            </variablelist>
            <para>
              Instruct the node to become member of a cluster with the
              specified nodes.  This will succeed even if the specified nodes
              are offline.  For a more detailed description, see
              <link linkend="cluster"><command>cluster</command>.</link>
            </para>
            <para>
              Note that this variant of the cluster command just
              ignores the current status of the specified nodes.
              Clustering may still fail for a variety of other
              reasons.
            </para>
          </listitem>
        </varlistentry>
      </variablelist>
    </refsect2>

    <refsect2>
      <title>Closing individual connections</title>

      <variablelist>
        <varlistentry>
          <term><cmdsynopsis><command>close_connection</command> <arg choice="req"><replaceable>connectionpid</replaceable></arg> <arg choice="req"><replaceable>explanation</replaceable></arg></cmdsynopsis></term>
          <listitem>
            <variablelist>
              <varlistentry>
                <term>connectionpid</term>
                <listitem><para>Id of the Erlang process associated with the connection to close.</para></listitem>
              </varlistentry>
              <varlistentry>
                <term>explanation</term>
                <listitem><para>Explanation string.</para></listitem>
              </varlistentry>
            </variablelist>
            <para>
              Instruct the broker to close the connection associated
              with the Erlang process id <option>connectionpid</option> (see also the
              <link linkend="list_connections"><command>list_connections</command></link>
              command), passing the <option>explanation</option> string to the
              connected client as part of the AMQP connection shutdown
              protocol.
            </para>
            <para role="example-prefix">For example:</para>
            <screen role="example">rabbitmqctl close_connection "&lt;rabbit@tanto.4262.0&gt;" "go away"</screen>
            <para role="example">
              This command instructs the RabbitMQ broker to close the
              connection associated with the Erlang process
              id <command>&lt;rabbit@tanto.4262.0&gt;</command>, passing the
              explanation <command>go away</command> to the connected client.
            </para>
          </listitem>
        </varlistentry>
      </variablelist>
    </refsect2>

    <refsect2>
      <title>User management</title>

      <variablelist>
        <varlistentry>
          <term><cmdsynopsis><command>add_user</command> <arg choice="req"><replaceable>username</replaceable></arg> <arg choice="req"><replaceable>password</replaceable></arg></cmdsynopsis></term>
          <listitem>
            <variablelist>
              <varlistentry>
                <term>username</term>
                <listitem><para>The name of the user to create.</para></listitem>
              </varlistentry>
              <varlistentry>
                <term>password</term>
                <listitem><para>The password the created user will use to log in to the broker.</para></listitem>
              </varlistentry>
            </variablelist>
            <para role="example-prefix">For example:</para>
            <screen role="example">rabbitmqctl add_user tonyg changeit</screen>
            <para role="example">
              This command instructs the RabbitMQ broker to create a
              (non-administrative) user named <command>tonyg</command> with
              (initial) password
              <command>changeit</command>.
            </para>
          </listitem>
        </varlistentry>

        <varlistentry>
          <term><cmdsynopsis><command>delete_user</command> <arg choice="req"><replaceable>username</replaceable></arg></cmdsynopsis></term>
          <listitem>
            <variablelist>
              <varlistentry>
                <term>username</term>
                <listitem><para>The name of the user to delete.</para></listitem>
              </varlistentry>
            </variablelist>
            <para role="example-prefix">For example:</para>
            <screen role="example">rabbitmqctl delete_user tonyg</screen>
            <para role="example">
              This command instructs the RabbitMQ broker to delete the
              user named <command>tonyg</command>.
            </para>
          </listitem>
        </varlistentry>

        <varlistentry>
          <term><cmdsynopsis><command>change_password</command> <arg choice="req"><replaceable>username</replaceable></arg> <arg choice="req"><replaceable>newpassword</replaceable></arg></cmdsynopsis></term>
          <listitem>
            <variablelist>
              <varlistentry>
                <term>username</term>
                <listitem><para>The name of the user whose password is to be changed.</para></listitem>
              </varlistentry>
              <varlistentry>
                <term>newpassword</term>
                <listitem><para>The new password for the user.</para></listitem>
              </varlistentry>
            </variablelist>
            <para role="example-prefix">For example:</para>
            <screen role="example">rabbitmqctl change_password tonyg newpass</screen>
            <para role="example">
              This command instructs the RabbitMQ broker to change the
              password for the user named <command>tonyg</command> to
              <command>newpass</command>.
            </para>
          </listitem>
        </varlistentry>

        <varlistentry>
          <term><cmdsynopsis><command>set_admin</command> <arg choice="req"><replaceable>username</replaceable></arg></cmdsynopsis></term>
          <listitem>
            <variablelist>
              <varlistentry>
                <term>username</term>
                <listitem><para>The name of the user whose administrative
                status is to be set.</para></listitem>
              </varlistentry>
            </variablelist>
            <para role="example-prefix">For example:</para>
            <screen role="example">rabbitmqctl set_admin tonyg</screen>
            <para role="example">
              This command instructs the RabbitMQ broker to ensure the user
               named <command>tonyg</command> is an administrator. This has no
               effect when the user logs in via AMQP, but can be used to permit
               the user to manage users, virtual hosts and permissions when the
               user logs in via some other means (for example with the
               management plugin).
            </para>
          </listitem>
        </varlistentry>

        <varlistentry>
          <term><cmdsynopsis><command>clear_admin</command> <arg choice="req"><replaceable>username</replaceable></arg></cmdsynopsis></term>
          <listitem>
            <variablelist>
              <varlistentry>
                <term>username</term>
                <listitem><para>The name of the user whose administrative
                status is to be cleared.</para></listitem>
              </varlistentry>
            </variablelist>
            <para role="example-prefix">For example:</para>
            <screen role="example">rabbitmqctl clear_admin tonyg</screen>
            <para role="example">
              This command instructs the RabbitMQ broker to ensure the user
               named <command>tonyg</command> is not an administrator.
            </para>
          </listitem>
        </varlistentry>

        <varlistentry>
          <term><cmdsynopsis><command>list_users</command></cmdsynopsis></term>
          <listitem>
            <para>Lists users</para>
            <para role="example-prefix">For example:</para>
            <screen role="example">rabbitmqctl list_users</screen>
            <para role="example">
              This command instructs the RabbitMQ broker to list all
              users. Each result row will contain the user name and
              the administrator status of the user, in that order.
            </para>
          </listitem>
        </varlistentry>
      </variablelist>
    </refsect2>

    <refsect2>
      <title>Access control</title>

      <variablelist>
        <varlistentry>
          <term><cmdsynopsis><command>add_vhost</command> <arg choice="req"><replaceable>vhostpath</replaceable></arg></cmdsynopsis></term>
          <listitem>
            <variablelist>
              <varlistentry>
                <term>vhostpath</term>
                <listitem><para>The name of the virtual host entry to create.</para></listitem>
              </varlistentry>
            </variablelist>
            <para>
              Creates a virtual host.
            </para>
            <para role="example-prefix">For example:</para>
            <screen role="example">rabbitmqctl add_vhost test</screen>
            <para role="example">
              This command instructs the RabbitMQ broker to create a new
              virtual host called <command>test</command>.
            </para>
          </listitem>
        </varlistentry>

        <varlistentry>
          <term><cmdsynopsis><command>delete_vhost</command> <arg choice="req"><replaceable>vhostpath</replaceable></arg></cmdsynopsis></term>
          <listitem>
            <variablelist>
              <varlistentry>
                <term>vhostpath</term>
                <listitem><para>The name of the virtual host entry to delete.</para></listitem>
              </varlistentry>
            </variablelist>
            <para>
              Deletes a virtual host.
            </para>
            <para>
              Deleting a virtual host deletes all its exchanges,
              queues, user mappings and associated permissions.
            </para>
            <para role="example-prefix">For example:</para>
            <screen role="example">rabbitmqctl delete_vhost test</screen>
            <para role="example">
              This command instructs the RabbitMQ broker to delete the
              virtual host called <command>test</command>.
            </para>
          </listitem>
        </varlistentry>

        <varlistentry>
          <term><cmdsynopsis><command>list_vhosts</command></cmdsynopsis></term>
          <listitem>
            <para>
              Lists virtual hosts.
            </para>
            <para role="example-prefix">For example:</para>
            <screen role="example">rabbitmqctl list_vhosts</screen>
            <para role="example">
              This command instructs the RabbitMQ broker to list all
              virtual hosts.
            </para>
          </listitem>
        </varlistentry>

        <varlistentry>
          <term><cmdsynopsis><command>set_permissions</command> <arg choice="opt">-p <replaceable>vhostpath</replaceable></arg> <arg choice="req"><replaceable>user</replaceable></arg> <arg choice="req"><replaceable>conf</replaceable></arg> <arg choice="req"><replaceable>write</replaceable></arg> <arg choice="req"><replaceable>read</replaceable></arg></cmdsynopsis></term>
          <listitem>
            <variablelist>
              <varlistentry>
                <term>vhostpath</term>
                <listitem><para>The name of the virtual host to which to grant the user access, defaulting to <command>/</command>.</para></listitem>
              </varlistentry>
              <varlistentry>
                <term>user</term>
                <listitem><para>The name of the user to grant access to the specified virtual host.</para></listitem>
              </varlistentry>
              <varlistentry>
                <term>conf</term>
                <listitem><para>A regular expression matching resource names for which the user is granted configure permissions.</para></listitem>
              </varlistentry>
              <varlistentry>
                <term>write</term>
                <listitem><para>A regular expression matching resource names for which the user is granted write permissions.</para></listitem>
              </varlistentry>
              <varlistentry>
                <term>read</term>
                <listitem><para>A regular expression matching resource names for which the user is granted read permissions.</para></listitem>
              </varlistentry>
            </variablelist>
            <para>
              Sets user permissions.
            </para>
            <para role="example-prefix">For example:</para>
            <screen role="example">rabbitmqctl set_permissions -p /myvhost tonyg "^tonyg-.*" ".*" ".*"</screen>
            <para role="example">
              This command instructs the RabbitMQ broker to grant the
              user named <command>tonyg</command> access to the virtual host
              called <command>/myvhost</command>, with configure permissions
              on all resources whose names starts with "tonyg-", and
              write and read permissions on all resources.
            </para>
          </listitem>
        </varlistentry>

        <varlistentry>
          <term><cmdsynopsis><command>clear_permissions</command> <arg choice="opt">-p <replaceable>vhostpath</replaceable></arg> <arg choice="req"><replaceable>username</replaceable></arg></cmdsynopsis></term>
          <listitem>
            <variablelist>
              <varlistentry>
                <term>vhostpath</term>
                <listitem><para>The name of the virtual host to which to deny the user access, defaulting to <command>/</command>.</para></listitem>
              </varlistentry>
              <varlistentry>
                <term>username</term>
                <listitem><para>The name of the user to deny access to the specified virtual host.</para></listitem>
              </varlistentry>
            </variablelist>
            <para>
              Sets user permissions.
            </para>
            <para role="example-prefix">For example:</para>
            <screen role="example">rabbitmqctl clear_permissions -p /myvhost tonyg</screen>
            <para role="example">
              This command instructs the RabbitMQ broker to deny the
              user named <command>tonyg</command> access to the virtual host
              called <command>/myvhost</command>.
            </para>
          </listitem>
        </varlistentry>

        <varlistentry>
          <term><cmdsynopsis><command>list_permissions</command> <arg choice="opt">-p <replaceable>vhostpath</replaceable></arg></cmdsynopsis></term>
          <listitem>
            <variablelist>
              <varlistentry>
                <term>vhostpath</term>
                <listitem><para>The name of the virtual host for which to list the users that have been granted access to it, and their permissions. Defaults to <command>/</command>.</para></listitem>
              </varlistentry>
            </variablelist>
            <para>
              Lists permissions in a virtual host.
            </para>
            <para role="example-prefix">For example:</para>
            <screen role="example">rabbitmqctl list_permissions -p /myvhost</screen>
            <para role="example">
              This command instructs the RabbitMQ broker to list all
              the users which have been granted access to the virtual
              host called <command>/myvhost</command>, and the
              permissions they have for operations on resources in
              that virtual host.  Note that an empty string means no
              permissions granted.
            </para>
          </listitem>
        </varlistentry>

        <varlistentry>
          <term><cmdsynopsis><command>list_user_permissions</command> <arg choice="opt">-p <replaceable>vhostpath</replaceable></arg> <arg choice="req"><replaceable>username</replaceable></arg></cmdsynopsis></term>
          <listitem>
            <variablelist>
              <varlistentry>
                <term>username</term>
                <listitem><para>The name of the user for which to list the permissions.</para></listitem>
              </varlistentry>
            </variablelist>
            <para>
              Lists user permissions.
            </para>
            <para role="example-prefix">For example:</para>
            <screen role="example">rabbitmqctl list_user_permissions tonyg</screen>
            <para role="example">
              This command instructs the RabbitMQ broker to list all the
              virtual hosts to which the user named <command>tonyg</command>
              has been granted access, and the permissions the user has
              for operations on resources in these virtual hosts.
            </para>
          </listitem>
        </varlistentry>
      </variablelist>
    </refsect2>

    <refsect2>
      <title>Server Status</title>
      <para>
        The server status queries interrogate the server and return a list of
        results with tab-delimited columns. Some queries (<command>list_queues</command>,
        <command>list_exchanges</command>, <command>list_bindings</command>, and
        <command>list_consumers</command>) accept an
        optional <command>vhost</command> parameter. This parameter, if present,  must be
        specified immediately after the query.
      </para>
      <para role="usage">
        The list_queues, list_exchanges and list_bindings commands accept an
        optional virtual host parameter for which to display results. The
        default value is "/".
      </para>

      <variablelist>
        <varlistentry role="usage-has-option-list">
          <term><cmdsynopsis><command>list_queues</command> <arg choice="opt">-p <replaceable>vhostpath</replaceable></arg> <arg choice="opt" role="usage-option-list"><replaceable>queueinfoitem</replaceable> ...</arg></cmdsynopsis></term>
          <listitem>
            <para>
              Returns queue details. Queue details of the <command>/</command> virtual host
              are returned if the "-p" flag is absent. The "-p" flag can be used to
              override this default.
            </para>
            <para>
              The <command>queueinfoitem</command> parameter is used to indicate which queue
              information items to include in the results. The column order in the
              results will match the order of the parameters.
              <command>queueinfoitem</command> can take any value from the list
              that follows:
            </para>
            <variablelist>
              <varlistentry>
                <term>name</term>
                <listitem><para>The name of the queue with non-ASCII characters escaped as in C.</para></listitem>
              </varlistentry>
              <varlistentry>
                <term>durable</term>
                <listitem><para>Whether or not the queue survives server restarts.</para></listitem>
              </varlistentry>
              <varlistentry>
                <term>auto_delete</term>
                <listitem><para>Whether the queue will be deleted automatically when no longer used.</para></listitem>
              </varlistentry>
              <varlistentry>
                <term>arguments</term>
                <listitem><para>Queue arguments.</para></listitem>
              </varlistentry>
              <varlistentry>
                <term>pid</term>
                <listitem><para>Id of the Erlang process associated with the queue.</para></listitem>
              </varlistentry>
              <varlistentry>
                <term>owner_pid</term>
                <listitem><para>Id of the Erlang process representing the connection
                  which is the exclusive owner of the queue. Empty if the
                  queue is non-exclusive.</para></listitem>
              </varlistentry>
              <varlistentry>
                <term>exclusive_consumer_pid</term>
                <listitem><para>Id of the Erlang process representing the channel of the
                  exclusive consumer subscribed to this queue. Empty if
                  there is no exclusive consumer.</para></listitem>
              </varlistentry>
              <varlistentry>
                <term>exclusive_consumer_tag</term>
                <listitem><para>Consumer tag of the exclusive consumer subscribed to
                  this queue. Empty if there is no exclusive consumer.</para></listitem>
              </varlistentry>
              <varlistentry>
                <term>messages_ready</term>
                <listitem><para>Number of messages ready to be delivered to clients.</para></listitem>
              </varlistentry>
              <varlistentry>
                <term>messages_unacknowledged</term>
                <listitem><para>Number of messages delivered to clients but not yet acknowledged.</para></listitem>
              </varlistentry>
              <varlistentry>
                <term>messages</term>
                <listitem><para>Sum of ready and unacknowledged messages
                  (queue depth).</para></listitem>
              </varlistentry>
              <varlistentry>
                <term>consumers</term>
                <listitem><para>Number of consumers.</para></listitem>
              </varlistentry>
              <varlistentry>
                <term>memory</term>
                <listitem><para>Bytes of memory consumed by the Erlang process associated with the
                  queue, including stack, heap and internal structures.</para></listitem>
              </varlistentry>
            </variablelist>
            <para>
              If no <command>queueinfoitem</command>s are specified then queue name and depth are
              displayed.
            </para>
            <para role="example-prefix">
              For example:
            </para>
            <screen role="example">rabbitmqctl list_queues -p /myvhost messages consumers</screen>
            <para role="example">
              This command displays the depth and number of consumers for each
              queue of the virtual host named <command>/myvhost</command>.
            </para>
          </listitem>
        </varlistentry>

        <varlistentry role="usage-has-option-list">
          <term><cmdsynopsis><command>list_exchanges</command> <arg choice="opt">-p <replaceable>vhostpath</replaceable></arg> <arg choice="opt" role="usage-option-list"><replaceable>exchangeinfoitem</replaceable> ...</arg></cmdsynopsis></term>
          <listitem>
            <para>
              Returns exchange details. Exchange details of the <command>/</command> virtual host
              are returned if the "-p" flag is absent. The "-p" flag can be used to
              override this default.
            </para>
            <para>
              The <command>exchangeinfoitem</command> parameter is used to indicate which
              exchange information items to include in the results. The column order in the
              results will match the order of the parameters.
              <command>exchangeinfoitem</command> can take any value from the list
              that follows:
            </para>
            <variablelist>
              <varlistentry>
                <term>name</term>
                <listitem><para>The name of the exchange with non-ASCII characters escaped as in C.</para></listitem>
              </varlistentry>
              <varlistentry>
                <term>type</term>
                <listitem><para>The exchange type (one of [<command>direct</command>,
                  <command>topic</command>, <command>headers</command>,
                  <command>fanout</command>]).</para></listitem>
              </varlistentry>
              <varlistentry>
                <term>durable</term>
                <listitem><para>Whether or not the exchange survives server restarts.</para></listitem>
              </varlistentry>
              <varlistentry>
                <term>auto_delete</term>
                <listitem><para>Whether the exchange will be deleted automatically when no longer used.</para></listitem>
              </varlistentry>
              <varlistentry>
                <term>arguments</term>
                <listitem><para>Exchange arguments.</para></listitem>
              </varlistentry>
            </variablelist>
            <para>
              If no <command>exchangeinfoitem</command>s are specified then
              exchange name and type are displayed.
            </para>
            <para role="example-prefix">
              For example:
            </para>
            <screen role="example">rabbitmqctl list_exchanges -p /myvhost name type</screen>
            <para role="example">
              This command displays the name and type for each
              exchange of the virtual host named <command>/myvhost</command>.
            </para>
          </listitem>
        </varlistentry>

        <varlistentry role="usage-has-option-list">
          <term><cmdsynopsis><command>list_bindings</command> <arg choice="opt">-p <replaceable>vhostpath</replaceable></arg> <arg choice="opt" role="usage-option-list"><replaceable>bindinginfoitem</replaceable> ...</arg></cmdsynopsis></term>
          <listitem>
            <para>
              Returns binding details. By default the bindings for
              the <command>/</command> virtual host are returned. The
              "-p" flag can be used to override this default.
            </para>
            <para>
              The <command>bindinginfoitem</command> parameter is used
              to indicate which binding information items to include
              in the results. The column order in the results will
              match the order of the parameters.
              <command>bindinginfoitem</command> can take any value
              from the list that follows:
            </para>
            <variablelist>
              <varlistentry>
                <term>source_name</term>
                <listitem><para>The name of the source of messages to
                which the binding is attached. With non-ASCII
                characters escaped as in C.</para></listitem>
              </varlistentry>
              <varlistentry>
                <term>source_kind</term>
                <listitem><para>The kind of the source of messages to
                which the binding is attached. Currently always
                queue. With non-ASCII characters escaped as in
                C.</para></listitem>
              </varlistentry>
              <varlistentry>
                <term>destination_name</term>
                <listitem><para>The name of the destination of
                messages to which the binding is attached. With
                non-ASCII characters escaped as in
                C.</para></listitem>
              </varlistentry>
              <varlistentry>
                <term>destination_kind</term>
                <listitem><para>The kind of the destination of
                messages to which the binding is attached. With
                non-ASCII characters escaped as in
                C.</para></listitem>
              </varlistentry>
              <varlistentry>
                <term>routing_key</term>
                <listitem><para>The binding's routing key, with
                non-ASCII characters escaped as in C.</para></listitem>
              </varlistentry>
              <varlistentry>
                <term>arguments</term>
                <listitem><para>The binding's arguments.</para></listitem>
              </varlistentry>
            </variablelist>
            <para>
              If no <command>bindinginfoitem</command>s are specified then
              all above items are displayed.
            </para>
            <para role="example-prefix">
              For example:
            </para>
            <screen role="example">rabbitmqctl list_bindings -p /myvhost exchange_name queue_name</screen>
            <para role="example">
              This command displays the exchange name and queue name
              of the bindings in the virtual host
              named <command>/myvhost</command>.
            </para>
          </listitem>
        </varlistentry>

        <varlistentry id="list_connections" role="usage-has-option-list">
          <term><cmdsynopsis><command>list_connections</command> <arg choice="opt" role="usage-option-list"><replaceable>connectioninfoitem</replaceable> ...</arg></cmdsynopsis></term>
          <listitem>
            <para>
              Returns TCP/IP connection statistics.
            </para>
            <para>
              The <command>connectioninfoitem</command> parameter is used to indicate
              which connection information items to include in the results. The
              column order in the results will match the order of the parameters.
              <command>connectioninfoitem</command> can take any value from the list
              that follows:
            </para>

            <variablelist>
              <varlistentry>
                <term>pid</term>
                <listitem><para>Id of the Erlang process associated with the connection.</para></listitem>
              </varlistentry>
              <varlistentry>
                <term>address</term>
                <listitem><para>Server IP address.</para></listitem>
              </varlistentry>
              <varlistentry>
                <term>port</term>
                <listitem><para>Server port.</para></listitem>
              </varlistentry>
              <varlistentry>
                <term>peer_address</term>
                <listitem><para>Peer address.</para></listitem>
              </varlistentry>
              <varlistentry>
                <term>peer_port</term>
                <listitem><para>Peer port.</para></listitem>
              </varlistentry>
              <varlistentry>
                <term>ssl</term>
                <listitem><para>Boolean indicating whether the
                connection is secured with SSL.</para></listitem>
              </varlistentry>
              <varlistentry>
                <term>peer_cert_subject</term>
                <listitem><para>The subject of the peer's SSL
                certificate, in RFC4514 form.</para></listitem>
              </varlistentry>
              <varlistentry>
                <term>peer_cert_issuer</term>
                <listitem><para>The issuer of the peer's SSL
                certificate, in RFC4514 form.</para></listitem>
              </varlistentry>
              <varlistentry>
                <term>peer_cert_validity</term>
                <listitem><para>The period for which the peer's SSL
                certificate is valid.</para></listitem>
              </varlistentry>
              <varlistentry>
                <term>state</term>
                <listitem><para>Connection state (one of [<command>starting</command>, <command>tuning</command>,
                  <command>opening</command>, <command>running</command>, <command>closing</command>, <command>closed</command>]).</para></listitem>
              </varlistentry>
              <varlistentry>
                <term>channels</term>
                <listitem><para>Number of channels using the connection.</para></listitem>
              </varlistentry>
              <varlistentry>
                <term>protocol</term>
                <listitem><para>Version of the AMQP protocol in use (currently one of <command>{0,9,1}</command> or <command>{0,8,0}</command>). Note that if a client requests an AMQP 0-9 connection, we treat it as AMQP 0-9-1.</para></listitem>
              </varlistentry>
              <varlistentry>
                <term>user</term>
                <listitem><para>Username associated with the connection.</para></listitem>
              </varlistentry>
              <varlistentry>
                <term>vhost</term>
                <listitem><para>Virtual host name with non-ASCII characters escaped as in C.</para></listitem>
              </varlistentry>
              <varlistentry>
                <term>timeout</term>
                <listitem><para>Connection timeout.</para></listitem>
              </varlistentry>
              <varlistentry>
                <term>frame_max</term>
                <listitem><para>Maximum frame size (bytes).</para></listitem>
              </varlistentry>
              <varlistentry>
                <term>client_properties</term>
                <listitem><para>Informational properties transmitted by the client
                  during connection establishment.</para></listitem>
              </varlistentry>
              <varlistentry>
                <term>recv_oct</term>
                <listitem><para>Octets received.</para></listitem>
              </varlistentry>
              <varlistentry>
                <term>recv_cnt</term>
                <listitem><para>Packets received.</para></listitem>
              </varlistentry>
              <varlistentry>
                <term>send_oct</term>
                <listitem><para>Octets send.</para></listitem>
              </varlistentry>
              <varlistentry>
                <term>send_cnt</term>
                <listitem><para>Packets sent.</para></listitem>
              </varlistentry>
              <varlistentry>
                <term>send_pend</term>
                <listitem><para>Send queue size.</para></listitem>
              </varlistentry>
            </variablelist>
            <para>
              If no <command>connectioninfoitem</command>s are specified then  user, peer
              address, peer port and connection state are displayed.
            </para>

            <para role="example-prefix">
              For example:
            </para>
            <screen role="example">rabbitmqctl list_connections send_pend server_port</screen>
            <para role="example">
              This command displays the send queue size and server port for each
              connection.
            </para>
          </listitem>
        </varlistentry>

        <varlistentry role="usage-has-option-list">
          <term><cmdsynopsis><command>list_channels</command> <arg choice="opt" role="usage-option-list"><replaceable>channelinfoitem</replaceable> ...</arg></cmdsynopsis></term>
          <listitem>
            <para>
              Returns information on all current channels, the logical
              containers executing most AMQP commands. This includes
              channels that are part of ordinary AMQP connections, and
              channels created by various plug-ins and other extensions.
            </para>
            <para>
              The <command>channelinfoitem</command> parameter is used to
              indicate which channel information items to include in the
              results. The column order in the results will match the
              order of the parameters.
              <command>channelinfoitem</command> can take any value from the list
              that follows:
            </para>

            <variablelist>
              <varlistentry>
                <term>pid</term>
                <listitem><para>Id of the Erlang process associated with the connection.</para></listitem>
              </varlistentry>
              <varlistentry>
                <term>connection</term>
                <listitem><para>Id of the Erlang process associated with the connection
                  to which the channel belongs.</para></listitem>
              </varlistentry>
              <varlistentry>
                <term>number</term>
                <listitem><para>The number of the channel, which uniquely identifies it within
                  a connection.</para></listitem>
              </varlistentry>
              <varlistentry>
                <term>user</term>
                <listitem><para>Username associated with the channel.</para></listitem>
              </varlistentry>
              <varlistentry>
                <term>vhost</term>
                <listitem><para>Virtual host in which the channel operates.</para></listitem>
              </varlistentry>
              <varlistentry>
                <term>transactional</term>
                <listitem><para>True if the channel is in transactional mode, false otherwise.</para></listitem>
              </varlistentry>
              <varlistentry>
                <term>consumer_count</term>
                <listitem><para>Number of logical AMQP consumers retrieving messages via
                  the channel.</para></listitem>
              </varlistentry>
              <varlistentry>
                <term>messages_unacknowledged</term>
                <listitem><para>Number of messages delivered via this channel but not
                  yet acknowledged.</para></listitem>
              </varlistentry>
              <varlistentry>
                <term>acks_uncommitted</term>
                <listitem><para>Number of acknowledgements received in an as yet
                  uncommitted transaction.</para></listitem>
              </varlistentry>
              <varlistentry>
                <term>prefetch_count</term>
                <listitem><para>QoS prefetch count limit in force, 0 if unlimited.</para></listitem>
              </varlistentry>
              <varlistentry>
                <term>client_flow_blocked</term>
                <listitem><para>True if the client issued a
                    <command>channel.flow{active=false}</command>
                    command, blocking the server from delivering
                    messages to the channel's consumers.
                    </para></listitem>
              </varlistentry>
            </variablelist>
            <para>
              If no <command>channelinfoitem</command>s are specified then pid,
              user, transactional, consumer_count, and
              messages_unacknowledged are assumed.
            </para>

            <para role="example-prefix">
              For example:
            </para>
            <screen role="example">rabbitmqctl list_channels connection messages_unacknowledged</screen>
            <para role="example">
              This command displays the connection process and count
              of unacknowledged messages for each channel.
            </para>
          </listitem>
        </varlistentry>

        <varlistentry>
          <term><cmdsynopsis><command>list_consumers</command></cmdsynopsis></term>
          <listitem>
            <para>
              List consumers, i.e. subscriptions to a queue's message
              stream. Each line printed shows, separated by tab
              characters, the name of the queue subscribed to, the id of
              the channel process via which the subscription was created
              and is managed, the consumer tag which uniquely identifies
              the subscription within a channel, and a boolean
              indicating whether acknowledgements are expected for
              messages delivered to this consumer.
            </para>
            <para role="usage">
              The output format for "list_consumers" is a list of rows containing,
              in order, the queue name, channel process id, consumer tag, and a
              boolean indicating whether acknowledgements are expected from the
              consumer.
            </para>
          </listitem>
        </varlistentry>
      </variablelist>
    </refsect2>
  </refsect1>

</refentry>