[rabbitmq-discuss] RabbitMQ Visualiser Preview for RabbitMQ 2.6.0

[Matthew Sackman]

"Nothing appears for ages, and then three come along at once!"

Having had RabbitMQ launch on Cloud Foundary and Heroku
( http://www.rabbitmq.com/blog/2011/09/01/rabbitmq-on-heroku/ ), the
2.6.0 release coming out with many new features ( http://t.co/84Zrh4A );
I can now announce the next preview version of the RabbitMQ Visualiser.

Installation:
1. You need to be running RabbitMQ 2.6.0, and you need to have installed
   the Management Plugin (see
   http://www.rabbitmq.com/management.html#installation ).

Then, in your plugins directory:

2. Delete rabbitmq_management-2.6.0.ez

3. Download
http://www.rabbitmq.com/releases/plugins/v2.6.0-visualiser-preview/rabbitmq_management-2.6.0-visualiser-preview.ez
and
http://www.rabbitmq.com/releases/plugins/v2.6.0-visualiser-preview/rabbitmq_management_visualiser-2.6.0-visualiser-preview.ez
into your plugins directory.

4. Restart RabbitMQ.

You should now find the management webpage has a "Visualiser" tab. To
get a sense of what you should be able to see, point your browser at
http://guest:guest@dev.rabbitmq.com/mgmt/visualiser/
where I have got it set up and running, along with a client that's
slowly creating and removing resources on the broker.

See
http://hg.rabbitmq.com/rabbitmq-management-visualiser/file/default/README
for a README that includes which browsers work best, how things are laid
out, and what you can click on, double click on, drag and prod.

Note that whenever you release an item and it snaps back to its
idealised location, you are required to say out loud "Boiinnnnnnng!".

Feedback very welcome.

Matthew