Remotely shut down RabbitMQ server - rabbitmq

Question

I have been trying to remotely kill a rabbitmq server but haven't been lucky so far. I can easily connect to it and publish and receive messages using the pika library.
Steps I have tried so far:
Used RabbitMQ's HTTP API to DELETE a connection
/api/connections/name
An individual connection. DELETEing it
willclose the connection. Optionally set the "X-Reason"
header when DELETEing to provide a reason.'
When I tried something like http://localhost:15672/api/connection/127.0.0.1:31332, I get an error:
{"error":"Object Not Found","reason":"\"Not Found\"\n"}
Used rabbitmqadmin locally
Tried to use rabbitmqctl to remotely shut down the rabbitmq server

Answer 1

rabbitmqctl
Here is how to do that using rabbitmqctl
set RABBITMQ_CTL_ERL_ARGS=-setcookie FWQUGISFBWECSKWFVFRP
rabbitmqctl.bat -n rabbit#gabriele-VirtualBox stop
Erlang
Here is one way to kill a remote node using Erlang:
erl -setcookie FXQUEISFFRECSKWCVB -sname thekiller#gabriele-VirtualBox
Eshell V6.4 (abort with ^G)
(thekiller#gabriele-VirtualBox)1> net_adm:ping('rabbit#gabriele-VirtualBox').
pong
(thekiller#gabriele-VirtualBox)2> rpc:call('rabbit#gabriele-VirtualBox', init, stop, []).
ok
(thekiller#gabriele-VirtualBox)3>
Start erl console using your .erlang.cookie and with -sname
with same rabbitmq domain (in my case gabriele-VirtualBox).
Test if you reach the node using ping
call rpc:call('rabbit#gabriele-VirtualBox', init, stop, []).
Done, you killed the remote node.

Answer 2

After a bit of troubleshooting all over again, I was able to use the HTTP API to kill active connections. The trick was that the whole connection name was to be url encoded.
In my case the connection name was:
127.0.0.1:31332 -> 127.0.0.1:15672
So when I tried the following I got an error:
http://localhost:15672/api/connection/127.0.0.1:31332 ==> object not found error
It worked only after I URL encoded the connection name and sending a CURL DELETE like this:
http://localhost:15672/api/connection/127.0.0.1%3A31332%20-%3E%20127.0.0.1%3A15672