[rabbitmq-discuss] messages stuck using shovel

Sun Nov 3 10:18:38 GMT 2013

Andy,

On 02/11/13 22:46, Andy Gram wrote:
> I found that I needed to add an exchange to the shovel configuration.
> I guess shovel publishes on the destination. My original
> understanding was that shovel moved messages from one queue to
> another but this seems to be wrong. It seems to read a message from
> the source and publish it to the destination.

See the second sentence at http://www.rabbitmq.com/shovel.html

"The high level goal of a shovel is to reliably and continually take
messages from a queue (a source) in one broker and publish them to
exchanges in another broker (a destination)."

> In any case, messages are moving now and I can progress.

Glad you got it working.

Regards,

Matthias.