Running the Broker ------------------ To run the broker, set the QPID_HOME environment variable to distribution directory and add $QPID_HOME/bin to your PATH. Then run the qpid-server shell script or qpid-server.bat batch file to start the broker. By default, the broker will use $QPID_HOME/etc to find the configuration files. You can supply a custom configuration using the -c argument. For example: qpid-server -c ~/etc/config.xml You can get a list of all command line arguments by using the -h argument.