# rabbitmqadmin

`rabbitmqadmin` is an HTTP API-based management tool. It uses the same API as RabbitMQ management UI and provides access to the subset of the functionality in the UI from the command line. It is not meant to be a replacement for rabbitmqctl as there are operations that HTTP API intentionally does not expose.

To use it, download it from this node (right click, Save As), make sure it is executable, and drop it in your `PATH`. Note that many browsers will rename the file `rabbitmqadmin.txt`. `rabbitmqadmin` requires Python 2.6 or later (both 2.x and 3.x series are supported). To use `rabbitmqadmin` with HTTPS, Python 2.7.9 is the minimum supported version.

See the rabbitmqadmin page on the website for more information on its use, or invoke `rabbitmqadmin --help` for usage instructions.

Windows users will need to ensure Python is on their `PATH`, and invoke rabbitmqadmin as `python.exe rabbitmqadmin`.