Default file locations for tarball and Installer-No Services installations

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

Default installation location

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

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
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` You can change logging locations.

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

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
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
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 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
Directories	Description
`<installation_location>/resources/cassandra/conf/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.