QPID-TOOL(1)

📦 version 1.39.0, in nixos 26.05, nixpkgs unstable

💅 QPID-TOOL(1) 💅

okay so bestie, welcome to the manual page for qpid-tool — like, the official one. It lives in section 1 of the manual (User Commands), so if you ever need to summon it at 2am, that's the address. Let's get into it ✨

🎀 NAME 🎀

qpid-tool — the Management Tool for QPID. that's it, that's the name, no notes 👑

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

qpid-tool [OPTIONS] [[<username>/<password>@]<target-host>[:<tcp-port>]]

like, the vibes are: options first (optional, slay), then maybe a username/password, then a host, then maybe a port. everything in brackets is a "you can skip this" moment. iykyk 💖

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

So what does it actually do? It prints lists of objects, prints an object's content, and sets the timestamp format. Lowkey iconic, highkey useful. it's giving "i just want to see what's going on in my broker" energy 🫶

✨ OPTIONS ✨

  • -h, --help — prints this help message and then dips (exits). the classic. 💅
  • -b <address>, --broker=<address> — tells it the address of the qpidd broker. the syntax is literally: [username/password@] then hostname or ip-address, then optionally :<port>. so like, credentials optional, host required, port optional, periodt 🎀
  • --sasl-mechanism=<mech> — picks the SASL mechanism for authentication, and the examples given are EXTERNAL, ANONYMOUS, PLAIN, CRAM-MD5, DIGEST-MD5, and GSSAPI. here's the tea tho 🍵: SASL automatically picks the most secure available mechanism — so you only use this option if you wanna override that. use it to flex, use it to debug, just know it's an override ✨
  • --sasl-service-name=SASL_SERVICE_NAME — the SASL service name to use. yes, that's the whole description, and yes, it's literally just that 🦋
  • --ssl-certificate=<path> — SSL certificate for client authentication. give it a path, bestie 🌈
  • --ssl-key=<path> — private key, but only if it's not already contained in the certificate. so check your cert before you @ me 💀

👑 AUTHOR 👑

The Apache Qpid Project, dev@qpid.apache.org — shoutout to the whole team, they ate 🔥

💜 REPORTING BUGS 💜

Found a bug? Do NOT suffer in silence, bestie 😭 — please report bugs to users@qpid.apache.org. they wanna hear it fr fr.

okay and the little fine print down at the bottom said this is qpid-tool from (qpid-cpp) version 1... dated March 2018 — so like, give it up for the 2018 era, still serving looks 🎀💖✨ bye bestie, go manage some objects 🦋

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