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 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 |
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/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 |
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/var/lib/cassandra/data | commitlog, data, hints, saved_caches directories |
/var/log/cassandra | Log files, including:
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/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:
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/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 |
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/usr/share/dse/backups/log_file_dir | Backup and log files:
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/usr/share/dse/uninstall | Uninstall DataStax Enterprise |
Default DSE Graph directories
Directories | Description |
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/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 |
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/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 |
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/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 |
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/etc/dse/cassandra/logback.xml | logback.xml is the logback configuration file |
Default location audit logs
Directories | Description |
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/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
Directories | Description |
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/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 |
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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.yaml | The 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 |
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
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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
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Commit log files | /var/lib/dse-nodeId/commitlog | The commit log directory for each node. Define with |
Hints directory | /var/lib/dse-nodeId/hints | The hints directory for each node. Define with |
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 |
Spark Worker local node directory | /var/lib/dse-nodeId/spark/rdd | The local directory for Spark Worker for each node. Define with |
Spark logs directory | /var/log/dse-nodeId/spark | The Spark logs directory for each node. Define with |
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 |
Licenses and other documents
The default location is installation_location. Also see DataStax Enterprise third-party software.