<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra">2013/7/3 Tom Anderson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tom.anderson@timgroup.com" target="_blank">tom.anderson@timgroup.com</a>></span><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
I don't know offhand how to start a brand new broker node. Is this
something that will be obvious if i read the documentation, or is
there any trick to it? </blockquote><div><br></div><div>Just start another instance of Rabbit. If you already have a package installed, you can use precompiled tarballs</div><div>and run RabbitMQ in the foreground with</div>
<div><br></div><div>./sbin/rabbitmq-server</div><div><br></div><div>(config files will go under ./etc/rabbitmq). Then you can monitor queue sizes on your main rabbit instance</div><div>to know when shovel has finished transferring messages.</div>
<div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">Will there be any surprises if we do this on
the same machine as a running node?</blockquote></div><br>You will have to enable the shovel plugin and make Rabbit use a different port (or disable TCP listeners</div><div class="gmail_extra">altogether).</div><div class="gmail_extra">
<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">With a tarball install, you do that via<br><br clear="all"><div>./sbin/rabbitmq-plugins enable rabbitmq_shovel</div>-- <br>MK<br><br><a href="http://github.com/michaelklishin" target="_blank">http://github.com/michaelklishin</a><br>
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