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DataStax Enterprise Installation Guide

    • Installing DSE 6.8
      • Which install method should I use?
      • Install on a single node
      • Installing supporting software
      • Installing a cluster using Lifecycle Manager 6.8
      • Installing from the Yum package
      • RedHat systemd configuration
      • Installing from the Debian package
      • Install from the tarball on any Linux distribution
      • Installing patch releases
      • Installing on cloud providers
      • Installing on Docker
      • Uninstalling DSE
      • Default DSE file locations
        • Package installations
        • Tarball installations
    • Installing DSE 6.8 Tools
      • Installing CQLSH
      • Installing DataStax Studio 6.8
      • Installing DSE Graph Loader
      • Installing DataStax Bulk Loader
      • Installing DataStax Apache Kafka Connector
    • Installing DSE OpsCenter 6.8
      • Installing from the RPM package
      • Installing from the Debian package
      • Installing from the tarball on any Linux distribution
      • Installing on Docker
      • Uninstalling OpsCenter
      • Installing DataStax Agents 6.8
        • Installing DataStax Agents automatically
        • Installing DataStax Agents manually
          • From the RPM package
          • From the Debian package
          • From a tarball
        • Setting Agent permissions to run as the DSE user
        • Configuring JAVA_HOME
  • DataStax Enterprise Installation Guide
  • Installing DSE 6.8
  • Default DSE file locations
  • Tarball installations

Default file locations for tarball and Installer-No Services installations

Locations when installing from DataStax Enterprise binary tarball.

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

  • 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 installation location

The default installation_location depends on whether you installed DataStax Enterprise by using the DataStax Installer or from the binary tarball:

  • Installer-No Services: /usr/share/dse

  • Tarball installation: The location where you extracted DataStax Enterprise.

Default directories for cassanda.yaml and dse.yaml

Directories Description

installation_location/resources/cassandra/conf/cassandra.yaml

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

installation_location/resources/cassandra/conf/cassandra.yamlinstallation_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/cassandra.yaml

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.

Default DSEFS data directory

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

Default DataStax Enterprise Installer and install log directories

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.md

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/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 OpsCenter documentation.

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.

Package installations Installing DSE 6.8 Tools

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