Default file locations for package and Installer-Services installations

The default location of the files depends on how you install DataStax Enterprise (DSE):

  • The files are in the same locations for Package installations and when the Services is selected using the DataStax Installer.

  • The files are 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 DSE database with default configuration for all nodes.

/etc/dse/dse.yaml

dse.yaml is the main configuration file for DSE.

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

Environment settings

/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

/user/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 Apache 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/web.xml

Default location for Tomcat server logs for DSE Search.

/var/log/cassandra/dropped_audit_events.log

Default location for dropped events logs.

Default DSE OpsCenter directories

See the DSE OpsCenter documentation.

[Deprecated in DSE 6.8] Default DSE Multi-Instance configuration files

With DSE Multi-Instance, multiple DSE nodes reside on a single host machine. To segregate the configuration for each DSE 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 Adding nodes to DSE Multi-Instance.

Directories Description

/etc/dse

/etc/dse/dse.yaml is the primary configuration file for DSE

/etc/dse-node1

/etc/dse-node1/dse.yaml is the configuration file for the DSE node in the dse-node1 directory

/etc/dse-node2

/etc/dse-node2/dse.yaml is the configuration file for the DSE 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.

[Deprecated in DSE 6.8] 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.

DSE node type

/etc/defaults/dse-nodeId

Defines the node type (transactional, search, analytics, graph, and so on).

DSE configuration file

/etc/dse-nodeId/dse.yaml

The dse.yaml configuration file for each node.

DSE process ID (pid) directory

/var/run/dse-nodeId.dse-nodeId.pid

The default DSE 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 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 Third-party software.

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