In the event that you need to troubleshoot a uniform distributed queue, you can temporarily pause all message production, insertion (in-flight messages), and consumption operations on each queue member. By temporarily pausing message production and insertion to a distributed queue, you can effectively drain all the existing messages for troubleshooting purposes, and then resume message production and insertions once the issue has been resolved.
To configure message pausing on the members of a distributed queue:
For more information about these fields, see Advanced Configuration Options.
After you finish
If you modify message pausing options on a distributed queue, you must restart the Administration Server.