How to install rabbitmq management plugin (rabbitmq-plugins)

11 down vote favorite 9

Brief:Is there a way to install rabbitmq-plugins via a ubuntu package? Details: I have rabbitmq running ok in my ubuntu system, and now I'm trying to monitor what's going on via the management plugin. I'm following rabbitmq.com/management.html instructions, but can't execute rabbitmq-plugins enable rabbitmq_management because my system does not have rabbitmq-plugins installed. It's Ubuntu 1110, and came with rabbitmq installed as a package (aptitude install rabbitmq-server librabbitmq-dev). The config and the server are running fine (the installed version is 2.5.0). Thought that the plugin would get installed by installing "sudo aptitude install rabbitmq-plugins-common", but doing that does not install rabbitmq-plugins. Is there a package that will install the plugin? I'd like to avoid if possible having to purge the rabbitmq server that is running ok, and then reinstall it via a download + build from source, all just to get the plugin. Thanks. ubuntu rabbitmq share | improve this question edited Dec 18 '11 at 0:46 Christofer Eliasson 13.7k 2 14 45 asked Dec 18 '11 at 0:29 jd. 633 8 21

Off topic - askubuntu.com –  Beau Grantham Dec 18 '11 at 0:36   Beau, thanks for the pointer. I re-posted the question in askubuntu, but will leave it here as well a little longer since it seems to draw a much larger number of rabbitmq community members than ubuntu, and someone may have had the same issue. –  jd. Dec 18 '11 at 0:49 add comment (requires an account with 50 reputation)

3 Answers

active oldest votes

up vote 17 down vote accepted

The rabbitmq-plugins script (and the whole concept of bundling plugins with the server release) was only introduced in RabbitMQ 2.7.0. If you want to keep using 2.5.0 then you should download the necessary plugin binaries from http://www.rabbitmq.com/releases/plugins/, drop them in /usr/lib/rabbitmq/lib/rabbitmq_server-2.5.0/plugins/ and restart. (The necessary binaries for management are amqp_client, mochiweb, webmachine, rabbitmq_mochiweb, rabbitmq_management_agent and rabbitmq_management.) If that sounds like a pain (well, this is why we changed it in 2.7.0!), you should consider upgrading to 2.7.1. You don't need to build from source - we make .deb packages available and have an apt repository - see http://www.rabbitmq.com/install-debian.html share | improve this answer answered Jan 4 '12 at 11:41 Simon MacMullen 486 3 3

2   I have ubuntu 12.04 and rabbitmq 2.7.1 but no rabbitmq-plugins?! –  Stefano May 21 '12 at 23:12 11   @Stefano have a look in the following location /usr/lib/rabbitmq/lib/rabbitmq_server-2.7.1/sbin/ which is where I found the rabbitmq-plugins file –  AidenMontgomery May 30 '12 at 21:53   @AidenMontgomery thanks indeed!! but why isn't that on the /usr/bin path by default?! –  Stefano May 30 '12 at 22:29   I tried to copy management plugin as per the above...but rabbitmq refuses to start. The other plugins seem to work OK. Strange. –  gyre Aug 27 '12 at 21:26 add comment (requires an account with 50 reputation)

up vote 6 down vote

If you are using Ubuntu 12.04 Steps are:-- My rabbitmq server version # dpkg -l rabbitmq-server Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description +++-===================-===================-====================================================== ii rabbitmq-server 2.7.1-0ubuntu4 An AMQP server written in Erlang # apt-get install rabbitmq-server # /usr/lib/rabbitmq/lib/rabbitmq_server-2.7.1/sbin/rabbitmq-plugins list [ ] amqp_client 0.0.0 [ ] eldap 0.0.0-git [ ] erlando 0.0.0 [ ] mochiweb 1.3-rmq0.0.0-git [ ] rabbitmq_auth_backend_ldap 0.0.0 [ ] rabbitmq_auth_mechanism_ssl 0.0.0 [ ] rabbitmq_consistent_hash_exchange 0.0.0 [ ] rabbitmq_federation 0.0.0 [ ] rabbitmq_jsonrpc 0.0.0 [ ] rabbitmq_jsonrpc_channel 0.0.0 [ ] rabbitmq_jsonrpc_channel_examples 0.0.0 [ ] rabbitmq_management 0.0.0 [ ] rabbitmq_management_agent 0.0.0 [ ] rabbitmq_management_visualiser 0.0.0 [ ] rabbitmq_mochiweb 0.0.0 [ ] rabbitmq_shovel 0.0.0 [ ] rabbitmq_shovel_management 0.0.0 [ ] rabbitmq_stomp 0.0.0 [ ] rabbitmq_tracing 0.0.0 [ ] rfc4627_jsonrpc 0.0.0-git [ ] webmachine 1.7.0-rmq0.0.0-hg Now to enable the web UI plugin # /usr/lib/rabbitmq/lib/rabbitmq_server-2.7.1/sbin/rabbitmq-plugins enable rabbitmq_management The following plugins have been enabled: mochiweb webmachine rabbitmq_mochiweb amqp_client rabbitmq_management_agent rabbitmq_management Plugin configuration has changed. Restart RabbitMQ for changes to take effect. root@ubuntu:/usr/lib/rabbitmq/lib/rabbitmq_server-2.7.1/sbin# service rabbitmq-server restart Restarting rabbitmq-server: SUCCESS rabbitmq-server . root@ubuntu:/usr/lib/rabbitmq/lib/rabbitmq_server-2.7.1/sbin# /usr/lib/rabbitmq/lib/rabbitmq_server-2.7.1/sbin/rabbitmq-plugins list [e] amqp_client 0.0.0 [ ] eldap 0.0.0-git [ ] erlando 0.0.0 [e] mochiweb 1.3-rmq0.0.0-git [ ] rabbitmq_auth_backend_ldap 0.0.0 [ ] rabbitmq_auth_mechanism_ssl 0.0.0 [ ] rabbitmq_consistent_hash_exchange 0.0.0 [ ] rabbitmq_federation 0.0.0 [ ] rabbitmq_jsonrpc 0.0.0 [ ] rabbitmq_jsonrpc_channel 0.0.0 [ ] rabbitmq_jsonrpc_channel_examples 0.0.0 [E] rabbitmq_management 0.0.0 [e] rabbitmq_management_agent 0.0.0 [ ] rabbitmq_management_visualiser 0.0.0 [e] rabbitmq_mochiweb 0.0.0 [ ] rabbitmq_shovel 0.0.0 [ ] rabbitmq_shovel_management 0.0.0 [ ] rabbitmq_stomp 0.0.0 [ ] rabbitmq_tracing 0.0.0 [ ] rfc4627_jsonrpc 0.0.0-git [e] webmachine 1.7.0-rmq0.0.0-hg Check the Web UI on your browser try http://localhost:55672 & login via default user and password which is guest:guest & you will be able to see it all. Hope it helps. share | improve this answer edited Jun 19 at 9:48 answered May 16 at 14:06 koolhead17 71 1 4

add comment (requires an account with 50 reputation)

up vote 0 down vote

rabbitmq-plugins enable rabbitmq_management,this command is for recent versions of rabbitmq, rabbitmq_management is included in rabbitmq 2.8.5, it actually activates 6 plugins, which in older versions are downloads to RABBITMQ_PLUGINS_DIR, which set in script rabbitmq-server.so it is easier to upgrade your rabbitmq. here are 6 plugins : Activating RabbitMQ plugins ... 6 plugins activated: * amqp_client-0.0.0 * mochiweb-2.3.1-rmq0.0.0-gitd541e9a * rabbitmq_management-0.0.0 * rabbitmq_management_agent-0.0.0 * rabbitmq_mochiweb-0.0.0 * webmachine-1.9.1-rmq0.0.0-git52e62bc share | improve this answer answered Oct 3 '12 at 14:53 shenyan 45 4

add comment (requires an account with 50 reputation)