Default file locations for tarball and Installer-No Services installations

The default location of the files depend on how DataStax Enterprise is installed:

  • The files are located in the same locations for Package installations.

  • The files are located in the same locations for Tarball.

Default installation location

The default installation_location for the Tarball installation is the location where you extracted DataStax Enterprise.

Default directories for cassanda.yaml and dse.yaml

Default directories
Directories Description

<installation_location>/resources/cassandra/conf/cassandra.yaml

cassandra.yaml is the main configuration file for the database.

<installation_location>/resources/dse/conf/dse.yaml

dse.yaml is the main configuration file for DataStax Enterprise.

Default database directories

Default database directories
Directories Description

<installation_location>/resources/cassandra/bin

Commands and utilities, such as nodetool, cqlsh, sstabledump, and sstableloader

<installation_location>/resources/cassandra/conf

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/lib/cassandra

or

<installation_location>

commitlog, data, hints, saved_caches directories

/var/log/cassandra

Log files, including:

  • audit directory

  • debug.log

  • gremlin.log

  • solrvalidation.log

  • system.log

Default DSEFS data directory

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

Default DataStax Enterprise Installer and install log directories

Default DSEFS data directory
Directories Description

<installation_location>/dse/backups/log_file_dir/copied_config_files.log

Show Config File Overwrites

<installation_location>/dse/backups/log_file_dir/bitrock_installer.log

View Installation Log

<installation_location>/dse/backups/log_file_dir/install_dependencies.log

View Dependency Installation Log

<installation_location>/dse/README.adoc

View README

<installation_location>/dse/uninstall

Uninstall DataStax Enterprise

Default DSE Graph directories

Default DSE Graph directories
Directories Description

<installation_location>/resources/graph/gremlin-console/conf/remote.yaml

Gremlin console configuration for connection to the Gremlin Server, including Kerberos authentication and SSL encryption.

<installation_location>/resources/graph/conf/logback-gremlin-server.xml

GremlinServerFileAppender

Default DSE Search directories

Default DSE Search directories
Directories Description

<installation_location>/resources/solr/conf

Solr configuration

<installation_location>/resources/solr/lib

Solr driver

<installation_location>/demos/wikipedia

Search - Wikipedia demo

/var/log/cassandra

Search log messages are in the system.log file.

Default Apache Spark™ directories

Default Spark directories
Directories Description

<installation_location>/resources/spark/conf

spark-env.sh, spark-defaults.conf, spark-daemon-defaults.conf

/var/lib/spark

Spark library

/var/log/spark

Spark Master and Worker logs

<installation_location>/resources/spark/spark-jobserver

Spark Jobserver

<installation_location>/demos/portfolio_manager

Spark Portfolio Manager demo

/var/lib/dsefs

The default directory to store the DSE File System data.

Default Logback-appender directories

Default Logback-appender directories
Directories Description

<installation_location>/resources/cassandra/conf/logback.xml

logback.xml is the logback configuration file

Default location audit logs

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 directory for Token-generator tool

Default directory for Token-generator tool
Location Description

<installation_location>/resources/cassandra/tools/bin/token-generator

For manually Generating tokens.

Licenses and other documents

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

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