Enable RabbitMQ Management, easiest way to manage via Web Management Console.

RabbitMQ has few useful plugins built in, one of them simple Web Management Console where you can monitor  all the connections, queues etc ...  which is a cool thing.

Since it's is builtin plugin it doesn't need any installation or setup, all you need is just to enable particular plug in via single command. 

root@stack:~# rabbitmq-plugins enable rabbitmq_management

to list all the available rabbitMQ plugins and their status, "rabbitmq-plugins list" is useful. Let's use it.

root@stack:~# rabbitmq-plugins list
[e] amqp_client                       3.2.4
[ ] cowboy                            0.5.0-rmq3.2.4-git4b93c2d
[ ] eldap                             3.2.4-gite309de4
[e] mochiweb                          2.7.0-rmq3.2.4-git680dba8
[ ] rabbitmq_amqp1_0                  3.2.4
[ ] rabbitmq_auth_backend_ldap        3.2.4
[ ] rabbitmq_auth_mechanism_ssl       3.2.4
[ ] rabbitmq_consistent_hash_exchange 3.2.4
[ ] rabbitmq_federation               3.2.4
[ ] rabbitmq_federation_management    3.2.4
[ ] rabbitmq_jsonrpc                  3.2.4
[ ] rabbitmq_jsonrpc_channel          3.2.4
[ ] rabbitmq_jsonrpc_channel_examples 3.2.4
[E] rabbitmq_management               3.2.4
[e] rabbitmq_management_agent         3.2.4
[ ] rabbitmq_management_visualiser    3.2.4
[ ] rabbitmq_mqtt                     3.2.4
[ ] rabbitmq_shovel                   3.2.4
[ ] rabbitmq_shovel_management        3.2.4
[ ] rabbitmq_stomp                    3.2.4
[ ] rabbitmq_tracing                  3.2.4
[e] rabbitmq_web_dispatch             3.2.4
[ ] rabbitmq_web_stomp                3.2.4
[ ] rabbitmq_web_stomp_examples       3.2.4
[ ] rfc4627_jsonrpc                   3.2.4-git5e67120
[ ] sockjs                            0.3.4-rmq3.2.4-git3132eb9
[e] webmachine                        1.10.3-rmq3.2.4-gite9359c7

see you it has quite more plugins in built, you can also see status of the plugin. "[ ]" means not enabled "[e]" means enabled by default by rabbitMQ. "[E]" means Explicitly enabled, which means by you. rabbitMQ writes names of Explicitly enabled plugins to a "/etc/rabbitmq/enabled_plugins"

root@stack:~# cat /etc/rabbitmq/enabled_plugins
[rabbitmq_management].

Note: Don't try to modify manually it unless you are confident of what you are doing.

Try rabbitMQ man page to explore more help and info.


gil ...