Default file locations for Installer-No Services and tarball installations

Locations when installing from the DataStax Installer with No Services selected or tarball installations.

The default location of the files depend on how DataStax Enterprise is installed. The DataStax Installer installs files differently depending on whether Services or No Services option is selected during installation:
  • When Services is selected, the files are located in the same locations as package installations.
  • When No Services are selected, the files are located in the same locations as the tarball installations.

Default installation location 

The default install_location depends on whether you installed DataStax Enterprise by using the DataStax Installer or from the binary tarball:

Directories for cassanda.yaml and dse.yaml 

Directories Description
install_location/resources/cassandra/conf cassanda.yaml is the main configuration file for Apache Cassandra.
install_location/resources/dse/conf dse.yaml is the main configuration file for DataStax Enterprise.

BYOH directories 

Directories Description
install_location/bin byoh-env.sh is the BYOH configuration file to:
  • Set up the DataStax Enterprise environment
  • Define the BYOH environment variables
install_location/resources/byoh/conf BYOH configuration

Default Cassandra directories 

Directories Description
install_location/resources/cassandra/bin Cassandra commands and utilities, such as nodetool, cqlsh, sstabledump, and sstableloader
install_location/resources/cassandra/conf Cassandra property files and cqlshrc samples including:
  • cassandra-env.sh
  • cassandra-rackdc.properties
  • cassandra-topology.properties
  • cassandra-topology.yaml
  • commitlog_archiving.properties
  • cqlshrc.sample
  • logback.xml
/var/log/cassandra Cassandra log files, including:
  • audit directory
  • debug.log
  • gremlin.log
  • solrvalidation.log
  • system.log
You can change logging locations.

DSEFS data directory 

The default location for the DSEFS data directory is /var/lib/dsefs.

DataStax Enterprise Installer and install log directories 

Directories Description
install_location/dse/backups/log_file_dir/copied_config_files.log Show Config File Overwrites
install_location/dse/backups/log_file_dir/bitrock_installer.log View Installation Log
install_location/dse/backups/log_file_dir/install_dependencies.log View Dependency Installation Log
install_location/dse/backups/log_file_dir/pfc_results.txt View Configuration Recommendations and Warnings (Preflight Check Results)
install_location/dse/README.md View README
install_location/dse/uninstall Uninstall DataStax Enterprise

Default DSE Graph directories 

Directories Description
install_location/resources/graph/gremlin-console/conf/remote.yaml Gremlin console configuration for connection to the Gremlin Server, including Kerberos authentication and SSL encryption.
install_location/resources/graph/logback-gremlin-server.xml GremlinServerFileAppender

DSE Hadoop directories 

Directories Description
install_location/resources/hadoop/conf Hadoop configuration
install_location/demos/portfolio_manager Hadoop Portfolio Manager demo

Hive directories 

The default location is install_location/resources/hive/conf

Mahout directories 

Directories Description
install_location/resources/mahout/conf Mahout properties
install_location/demos/mahout Mahout demo

Pig directories 

Directories Description
install_location/resources/pig/conf Pig configuration
install_location/demos/pig Pig demo

Default DSE Search directories 

Directories Description
install_location/resources/solr/conf Solr configuration
install_location/resources/dse/lib Solr driver
install_location/demos/wikipedia Search - Wikipedia demo
/var/log/cassandra Solr log messages are in the Cassandra system.log file.

Default Spark directories 

Directories Description
install_location/resources/spark/conf spark-env.sh is the Spark configuration file
install_location/resources/spark/work Spark work directory
install_location/resources/spark/logs Spark Master and Worker logs
install_location/demos/spark Spark Portfolio Manager demo
/var/lib/dsefs The default directory to store the DSE File System data.

Sqoop directories 

Directories Description
install_location/resources/sqoop/conf Sqoop configuration
install_location/demos/sqoop Sqoop demo

Logback-appender directories 

Directories Description
install_location/resources logback.xml is the logback configuration file

Default location audit logs

Directories Description
/var/log/tomcat Default location for Tomcat server logs for DSE Search.
/var/log/cassandra/dropped_audit_events.log Default location for Cassandra dropped events logs.

Default OpsCenter directories 

See the OpsCenter documentation.

Default directory for Token-generator tool 

Location Description
install_location/resources/cassandra/tools/bin/token-generator For manually calculating tokens.

Licenses and other documents 

The default location is install_location.