RabbitMQ: Verify version of rabbitmq

If you do not care about the data in management database; i.e. users, vhosts, messages etc., and neither about other queues, then you can reset via commandline by running the following commands in order:

WARNING: In addition to the queues, this will also remove any users and vhosts, you have configured on your RabbitMQ server; and will delete any persistent messages

rabbitmqctl stop_app
rabbitmqctl reset
rabbitmqctl start_app

The rabbitmq documentation says that the reset command:

Returns a RabbitMQ node to its virgin state.

Removes the node from any cluster it belongs to, removes all data from the management database, such as configured users and vhosts, and deletes all persistent messages.

So, be careful using it.

If you are using Ubuntu 12.04

Steps are:--

My rabbitmq server version

# dpkg -l rabbitmq-server
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                Version             Description
+++-===================-===================-======================================================
ii  rabbitmq-server     2.7.1-0ubuntu4      An AMQP server written in Erlang

# apt-get install rabbitmq-server

# /usr/lib/rabbitmq/lib/rabbitmq_server-2.7.1/sbin/rabbitmq-plugins list
[ ] amqp_client                       0.0.0
[ ] eldap                             0.0.0-git
[ ] erlando                           0.0.0
[ ] mochiweb                          1.3-rmq0.0.0-git
[ ] rabbitmq_auth_backend_ldap        0.0.0
[ ] rabbitmq_auth_mechanism_ssl       0.0.0
[ ] rabbitmq_consistent_hash_exchange 0.0.0
[ ] rabbitmq_federation               0.0.0
[ ] rabbitmq_jsonrpc                  0.0.0
[ ] rabbitmq_jsonrpc_channel          0.0.0
[ ] rabbitmq_jsonrpc_channel_examples 0.0.0
[ ] rabbitmq_management               0.0.0
[ ] rabbitmq_management_agent         0.0.0
[ ] rabbitmq_management_visualiser    0.0.0
[ ] rabbitmq_mochiweb                 0.0.0
[ ] rabbitmq_shovel                   0.0.0
[ ] rabbitmq_shovel_management        0.0.0
[ ] rabbitmq_stomp                    0.0.0
[ ] rabbitmq_tracing                  0.0.0
[ ] rfc4627_jsonrpc                   0.0.0-git
[ ] webmachine                        1.7.0-rmq0.0.0-hg

Now to enable the web UI plugin

# /usr/lib/rabbitmq/lib/rabbitmq_server-2.7.1/sbin/rabbitmq-plugins enable rabbitmq_management
The following plugins have been enabled:
  mochiweb
  webmachine
  rabbitmq_mochiweb
  amqp_client
  rabbitmq_management_agent
  rabbitmq_management

Plugin configuration has changed. Restart RabbitMQ for changes to take effect.

root@ubuntu:/usr/lib/rabbitmq/lib/rabbitmq_server-2.7.1/sbin# service rabbitmq-server restart
Restarting rabbitmq-server: SUCCESS
rabbitmq-server

.

root@ubuntu:/usr/lib/rabbitmq/lib/rabbitmq_server-2.7.1/sbin# /usr/lib/rabbitmq/lib/rabbitmq_server-2.7.1/sbin/rabbitmq-plugins list

[e] amqp_client                       0.0.0
[ ] eldap                             0.0.0-git
[ ] erlando                           0.0.0
[e] mochiweb                          1.3-rmq0.0.0-git
[ ] rabbitmq_auth_backend_ldap        0.0.0
[ ] rabbitmq_auth_mechanism_ssl       0.0.0
[ ] rabbitmq_consistent_hash_exchange 0.0.0
[ ] rabbitmq_federation               0.0.0
[ ] rabbitmq_jsonrpc                  0.0.0
[ ] rabbitmq_jsonrpc_channel          0.0.0
[ ] rabbitmq_jsonrpc_channel_examples 0.0.0
[E] rabbitmq_management               0.0.0
[e] rabbitmq_management_agent         0.0.0
[ ] rabbitmq_management_visualiser    0.0.0
[e] rabbitmq_mochiweb                 0.0.0
[ ] rabbitmq_shovel                   0.0.0
[ ] rabbitmq_shovel_management        0.0.0
[ ] rabbitmq_stomp                    0.0.0
[ ] rabbitmq_tracing                  0.0.0
[ ] rfc4627_jsonrpc                   0.0.0-git
[e] webmachine                        1.7.0-rmq0.0.0-hg

Check the Web UI

on your browser try http://localhost:55672 (or http://localhost:15672 for newer versions of rabbitmq) & login via default user and password which is guest:guest & you will be able to see it all.

Hope it helps.