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-This is rabbitmq-server, a message broker implementing AMQP, STOMP and MQTT.
+This is rabbitmq-server, a message broker implementing AMQP 0-9-1, AMQP 1.0,
+STOMP and MQTT.
Most of the documentation for RabbitMQ is provided on the RabbitMQ web
-site. You can see documentation for the current version at:
+site. You can see documentation for the current version at
https://www.rabbitmq.com/documentation.html
-and for previous versions at:
+and for previous versions at
https://www.rabbitmq.com/previous.html
Man pages are installed with this package. Of particular interest are
rabbitmqctl(8), rabbitmq-diagnostics(8), rabbitmq-queues(8).
-They interact with a running node. rabbitmq-plugins(1) is used to manage plugins.
-All of these should be run as the superuser.
+They interact with a running node. rabbitmq-plugins(8) is used to manage plugins.
+All of these should be run as the superuser. Learn more about
+CLI tools at
+
+https://www.rabbitmq.com/cli.html
An example configuration file is provided in the same directory as
this README. Copy it to /etc/rabbitmq/rabbitmq.conf to use it. The
RabbitMQ server must be restarted after changing the configuration
-file.
+file. Learn more about configuration at
+
+https://www.rabbitmq.com/configure.html
An example policy file for HA queues is provided in the same directory
as this README. Copy and chmod +x it to