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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Directories	Description
`installation_location/resources/cassandra/conf/logback.xml`	`logback.xml` is the logback configuration file

installation_location/resources/cassandra/conf/logback.xml

logback.xml is the logback configuration file

Default location audit logs

Directories Description

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.

/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

Location	Description
`installation_location/resources/cassandra/tools/bin/token-generator`	For manually Generating tokens.

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.