Default file locations for package and Installer-Services installations

Locations when installing from DataStax Enterprise packages and when using the DataStax Installer with the Services option selected.

The default location of the files depend on how DataStax Enterprise is installed:
  • The files are located in the same locations for Package installations and when the Services is selected using the DataStax Installer.
  • The files are located in the same locations for Tarball and when No Services is selected using the DataStax Installer.

Default directories for cassandra.yaml and dse.yaml

Directories Description
/etc/dse/cassandra/cassandra.yaml cassandra.yaml is the main configuration file for the DataStax Enterprise database with default configuration for all nodes.
/etc/dse/dse.yaml dse.yaml is the main configuration file for DataStax Enterprise.

Default database directories

Directories Description
/var/lib/cassandra/data commitlog, data, hints, saved_caches directories
/var/log/cassandra Log files, including:
  • audit directory
  • debug.log
  • gremlin.log
  • solrvalidation.log
  • system.log
You can change logging locations.
/var/run/cassandra Database process ID (pid) directory
/usr/share/dse/cassandra/tools Tools for testing, starting, using SSTables, plus YAML examples.
/etc/dse/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
/etc/init.d Set node type and other server configuration

Default DSEFS data directory

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

Default DataStax Enterprise Installer directories, install logs, and uninstaller

Directories Description
/usr/share/dse/backups/log_file_dir Backup and log files:
  • bitrock_installer.log
  • copied_config_files.log
  • install_dependencies.log
  • pfc_results.txt
  • Backup files from previous releases
/usr/share/dse/uninstall Uninstall DataStax Enterprise

Default DSE Graph directories

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

Default DSE Search directories

Directories Description
/usr/share/dse/resources/solr/conf Solr configuration
/usr/share/dse/demos/wikipedia Search - Wikipedia demo
/usr/share/dse/solr/web/demos/wikipedia Search - Wikipedia demo with Tomcat
/var/log/cassandra Search log messages are in the system.log file

Default Spark directories

Directories Description
/etc/dse/spark/ spark-env.sh, spark-defaults.conf, spark-daemon-defaults.conf
/usr/share/dse/spark/lib Spark library
/var/log/spark Spark Master and Worker logs
/usr/share/dse/spark/spark-jobserver Spark Jobserver
/usr/share/dse/demos/portfolio_manager Spark Portfolio Manager demo
/var/lib/dsefs The default directory to store the DSE File System data.

Default location for the logback configuration file

Directories Description
/etc/dse/cassandra/logback.xml logback.xml is the logback configuration file

Default location audit logs

Directories Description
/etc/dse/tomcat/conf/server.xml/etc/dse/tomcat/conf/server.xml Default location for Tomcat server logs for DSE Search.
/var/log/cassandra/dropped_audit_events.log Default location for dropped events logs.

Default OpsCenter directories

See the OpsCenter documentation.

Default DSE Multi-Instance configuration files

With DSE Multi-Instance, multiple DataStax Enterprise nodes reside on a single host machine. To segregate the configuration for each DataStax Enterprise node, node-specific directory structures are used to store configuration and operational files. For example, in addition to /etc/dse/dse.yaml, the DSE Multi-Instance dse.yaml files are stored in /etc/dse-nodeId/dse.yaml locations. The server_id option is generated in DSE Multi-Instance /etc/dse-nodeId/dse.yaml files to uniquely identify the physical server on which multiple instances are running and is unique for each database instance. See DSE Multi-Instance server_id.
Directories Description
/etc/dse /etc/dse/dse.yaml is the primary configuration file for DataStax Enterprise
/etc/dse-node1 /etc/dse-node1/dse.yaml is the configuration file for the DataStax Enterprise node in the dse-node1 directory
/etc/dse-node2 /etc/dse-node2/dse.yaml is the configuration file for the DataStax Enterprise node in the dse-node2 directory

For a comprehensive list of file locations in a DSE Multi-Instance cluster, see directories for DSE Multi-Instance.

Default DSE Multi-Instance generated directories

With DSE Multi-Instance, these directories are created on the host machine for each node.

Purpose Directories Description
DSE Multi-Instance root directory /etc/defaults Each DSE Multi-Instance host machine has the /etc/defaults root directory. This default location is not configurable.
DataStax Enterprise node type /etc/defaults/dse-nodeId Defines the node type (transactional, search, analytics, graph, and so on).
DataStax Enterprise configuration file /etc/dse-nodeId/dse.yaml The dse.yaml configuration file for each node.
DataStax Enterprise process ID (pid) directory /var/run/dse-nodeId.dse-nodeId.pid The default DataStax Enterprise process ID (pid) directory for each node.
Database configuration /etc/dse-nodeId/cassandra/cassandra.yamlThe cassandra.yaml configuration file for each node.
Database data directory /var/lib/dse-nodeId/data The root directory for storing data on each node.

Define with dse add-node --data-directory=directory ...

Database log files /var/log/dse-nodeId/cassandra The default directory where the audit.log, output.log, solrvalidation.log, and system.log log files are stored for each node.

Define with dse add-node --logs-directory ...

Database pid directory /var/run/dse-nodeId Database process ID (pid) directory for each node.
Caches directory /var/lib/dse-nodeId/saved_caches The table key and row caches directory for each node.

Define with dse add-node --saved-caches-directory=directory ...
Commit log files /var/lib/dse-nodeId/commitlog The commit log directory for each node.

Define with dse add-node --commit-directory=directory ...
Hints directory /var/lib/dse-nodeId/hints The hints directory for each node.

Define with dse add-node --hints-directory=directory ...
Spark configuration file /etc/dse-nodeId/spark/spark-env.sh Spark configuration file spark-env.sh for each node.
Spark Worker data directory /var/lib/dse-nodeId/spark/worker The data directory for Spark Worker for each node.

Define with dse add-node --spark-worker-directory=directory ...
Spark Worker local node directory /var/lib/dse-nodeId/spark/rdd The local directory for Spark Worker for each node.

Define with dse add-node --spark-local-directory=directory ...
Spark logs directory /var/log/dse-nodeId/spark The Spark logs directory for each node.

Define with dse add-node --spark-log-directory=directory ...
Logback configuration /etc/dse-nodeId/cassandra/logback.xml Logback configuration file for each node.
Solr configuration /etc/dse-nodeId/solr Solr configuration files for each node.
Tomcat log files /var/log/dse-nodeId/tomcat The directory for Tomcat server logs.

Define with dse add-node --tomcat-logs=directory ...

Licenses and other documents

The default location is installation_location. Also see DataStax Enterprise third-party software.