Unable to connect to AMQ 7 broker instance using command line tool

Issue

When attempting to connect to an AMQ 7 broker instance using the command line tool as follows:

./artemis queue stat --url tcp://localhost:61616 --user admin --password admin --verbose

The following error occurs:

Connection failed::Failed to create session factory

--url: is a mandatory property!
Type in the broker URL for a retry (e.g. tcp://localhost:61616)
tcp://localhost:61616
Exception in thread "main" ActiveMQConnectionTimedOutException[errorType=CONNECTION_TIMEDOUT message=AMQ119013: Timed out waiting to receive cluster topology. Group:null]
        at org.apache.activemq.artemis.core.client.impl.ServerLocatorImpl.createSessionFactory(ServerLocatorImpl.java:807)
        at org.apache.activemq.artemis.cli.commands.AbstractAction.performCoreManagement(AbstractAction.java:35)
        at org.apache.activemq.artemis.cli.commands.queue.StatQueue.printStats(StatQueue.java:124)
        at org.apache.activemq.artemis.cli.commands.queue.StatQueue.execute(StatQueue.java:119)
        at org.apache.activemq.artemis.cli.Artemis.internalExecute(Artemis.java:149)
        at org.apache.activemq.artemis.cli.Artemis.execute(Artemis.java:96)
        at org.apache.activemq.artemis.cli.Artemis.execute(Artemis.java:123)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
        at org.apache.activemq.artemis.boot.Artemis.execute(Artemis.java:129)
        at org.apache.activemq.artemis.boot.Artemis.main(Artemis.java:49)
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