Commands

status

Print HA status. Returns information whether the specified broker is acting as a primary (active) or a backup (ready). With the --all option will list the whole cluster.

Examples:

# qpid-ha status
ready
# qpid-ha status --all
192.168.6.60:5672 ready
192.168.6.61:5672 active
192.168.6.62:5672 ready

ping

Check if the broker is alive and responding.

query

Print HA configuration and status. The following information is returned:

• broker status: primary (active) or backup (ready).
• list of HA broker URLs
• public (virtual) HA URL
• replication status

Example:

# qpid-ha query
Status:        ready
Brokers URL:   amqp:tcp:192.168.6.60:5672,tcp:192.168.6.61:5672,tcp:192.168.6.62:5672
Public URL:    amqp:tcp:192.168.6.251:5672
Replicate:     all

replicate

Set up replication from <queue> on <remote-broker> to <queue> on the current broker.

Parameters

--broker=BROKER

The address of qpidd broker. The syntax is shown below:

[username/password@] hostname | ip-address [:port]

--sasl-mechanism=SASL_MECH

SASL mechanism for authentication (e.g. EXTERNAL, ANONYMOUS, PLAIN, CRAM-MD5, DIGEST-MD5, GSSAPI). SASL automatically picks the most secure available mechanism - use this option to override.

--ssl-certificate=SSL_CERT

Client SSL certificate (PEM Format).

--config=CONFIG

Connect to the local qpidd by reading its configuration file (/etc/qpid/qpidd.conf, for example) .

--timeout=SECONDS

Give up if the broker does not respond within the timeout. 0 means wait forever. The default is 10.0.

--ssl-key=KEY

Client SSL private key (PEM Format)

--help-all

Outputs all of the above commands and parameters.