How to get information about exchanges/queues in Satellite6 qpid broker?

Environment

• Red Hat Satellite or Proxy 6
• qpid-tools package

Issue

• need to know queue statistics or list exchanges of qpid broker in Satellite 6
• running default qpid-stat or qpid-config fails as SSL is required

How to force the tools to use SSL? What client certificates to use?

Resolution

Use client certificates used during katello installation, and force the communication over SSL:

# On Satellite 6.5 and earlier:

qpid-stat --ssl-certificate=/etc/pki/katello/qpid_client_striped.crt -b "amqps://localhost:5671" -q
qpid-config --ssl-certificate=/etc/pki/katello/qpid_client_striped.crt -b "amqps://localhost:5671" exchanges

# On Satellite 6.6 and later:

qpid-stat --ssl-certificate=/etc/pki/pulp/qpid/client.crt -b "amqps://localhost:5671" -q
qpid-config --ssl-certificate=/etc/pki/pulp/qpid/client.crt -b "amqps://localhost:5671" exchanges

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