Configuring gossip settings
Using the cassandra.yaml file to configure gossip.
When a node first starts up, it looks at its cassandra.yaml configuration file to determine the name of the cluster it belongs to; which nodes (called seeds) to contact to obtain information about the other nodes in the cluster; and other parameters for determining port and range information.
cassandra.yaml
The location of the cassandra.yaml file depends on the type of installation:| Package installations | /etc/dse/cassandra/cassandra.yaml |
| Tarball installations | installation_location/resources/cassandra/conf/cassandra.yaml |
Procedure
In the cassandra.yaml file, set the following
parameters:
| Property | Description |
|---|---|
| cluster_name | Name of the cluster that this node is joining. Must be the same for every node in the cluster. |
| listen_address | The IP address or hostname that the database binds to for connecting this node to other nodes. |
| listen_interface | Use this option instead of listen_address to specify the network interface by name, rather than address/hostname |
| (Optional) broadcast_address | The public IP address this node uses to broadcast to other nodes outside the network or across regions in multiple-region EC2 deployments. If this property is commented out, the node uses the same IP address or hostname as listen_address. A node does not need a separate broadcast_address in a single-node or single-datacenter installation, or in an EC2-based network that supports automatic switching between private and public communication. It is necessary to set a separate listen_address and broadcast_address on a node with multiple physical network interfaces or other topologies where not all nodes have access to other nodes by their private IP addresses. For specific configurations, see the instructions for listen_address. The default is the listen_address. |
| seed_provider | A -seeds list is comma-delimited list of hosts (IP
addresses) that gossip uses to learn the topology of the
ring. Every node should have the same list of seeds. Attention: Making every node a seed node is not
recommended because of increased maintenance and reduced gossip performance. Gossip
optimization is not critical, but it is recommended to use a small seed list
(approximately three nodes per datacenter).
|
| storage_port | The inter-node communication port (default is 7000). Must be the same for every node in the cluster. |
| initial_token | For legacy clusters. Set this property for single-node-per-token architecture, in which a node owns exactly one contiguous range in the ring space. |
| num_tokens | For new clusters. The number of tokens randomly assigned to this node in a cluster that uses virtual nodes (vnodes). |