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Mastering RabbitMQ

By : Yusuf Aytas, Emrah Ayanoglu, Dotan Nahum
Book Image

Mastering RabbitMQ

By: Yusuf Aytas, Emrah Ayanoglu, Dotan Nahum

Overview of this book

RabbitMQ is one of the most powerful Open Source message broker software, which is widely used in tech companies such as Mozilla, VMware, Google, AT&T, and so on. RabbitMQ gives you lots of fantastic and easy-to-manage functionalities to control and manage the messaging facility with lots of community support. As scalability is one of our major modern problems, messaging with RabbitMQ is the main part of the solution to this problem This book explains and demonstrates the RabbitMQ server in a detailed way. It provides you with lots of real-world examples and advanced solutions to tackle the scalability issues. You’ll begin your journey with the installation and configuration of the RabbitMQ server, while also being given specific details pertaining to the subject. Next, you’ll study the major problems that our server faces, including scalability and high availability, and try to get the solutions for both of these issues by using the RabbitMQ mechanisms. Following on from this, you’ll get to design and develop your own plugins using the Erlang language and RabbitMQ’s internal API. This knowledge will help you to start with the management and monitoring of the messages, tools, and applications. You’ll also gain an understanding of the security and integrity of the messaging facilities that RabbitMQ provides. In the last few chapters, you will build and keep track of your clients (senders and receivers) using Java, Python, and C#.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Mastering RabbitMQ
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Plugin management and default plugins


RabbitMQ provides a number of tools that aid us in plugin management. Additionally, RabbitMQ provides lots of default plugins to monitor, manage, add features, and so on to RabbitMQ. Plugins are crucial because they introduce an important set of new features, making RabbitMQ easier to use and manage.

Now, we are ready to talk about enabling and disabling plugins.

Enabling and disabling plugins

RabbitMQ provides a plugin management tool called rabbitmq-plugins. rabbitmq-plugins is a command line tool to enable, disable, and list the plugins within the RabbitMQ server. The rabbitmq-plugins command will enable or disable plugins by updating the plugin configuration file. It will then contact the running server to tell it to start or stop plugins as needed. You can use the -n option to specify a different node, or use --offline to only change the file.

As all management tools of RabbitMQ need write permissions, rabbitmq-plugins also needs write permissions to...