Introduction
On every VerneMQ node you'll find the
vmq-admin command line tool in the release's bin directory (in case you use the binary VerneMQ packages, vmq-admin should already be callable in your path, without changing directories). It has different sub-commands that let you check for status, start and stop listeners, re-configure values and a couple of other administrative tasks.vmq-admin has different sub-commands with a lot of respective options. You can familiarize yourself by using the --help option on the different levels of vmq-admin. You might see additional sub-commands in case integrated plugins are running (vmq-admin bridge is an example).$ sudo vmq-admin --help
Usage: vmq-admin <sub-command>
Administrate the cluster.
Sub-commands:
node Manage this node
cluster Manage this node's cluster membership
session Retrieve session information
retain Show and filter MQTT retained messages
plugin Manage plugin system
listener Manage listener interfaces
metrics Retrieve System Metrics
api-key Manage API keys for the HTTP management interface
trace Trace various aspects of VerneMQ
Use --help after a sub-command for more details.
vmq-admin works by RPC'ing into the local VerneMQ node by default. For most commands you can add a --node option and set values on other cluster nodes, even if the local VerneMQ node is down.To check for the global cluster state in case the local VerneMQ node is down, you'll have to go to another node though.
vmq-admin is a live re-configuration utility. Please note that all dynamically configured values will be reset by vernemq.conf upon broker restart.
As a consequence, it's good practice to keep track of the applied changes when re-configuring a broker with vmq-admin. If needed, you can then persist changes by adding them to the vernemq.conf file.