Connecting to DataStax Enterprise using the Spark shell on an external Spark cluster

Use the Spark shell on an external Spark cluster to connect to DataStax Enterprise.

Use the generated byos.properties configuration file and the byos-version.jar from a DataStax Enterprise node to connect to the DataStax Enterprise cluster from the Spark shell on an external Spark cluster.

clients directory

The default location of the clients directory depends on the type of installation:

Package installations	/usr/share/dse/clients
Tarball installations	`installation_location`/clients

Prerequisites

You must generate the byos.properties on a node in your DataStax Enterprise cluster.

Procedure

Copy the byos.properties file you previously generated from the DataStax Enterprise node to the local Spark node.
```
scp user@dsenode1.example.com:~/byos.properties .
```
If you are using Kerberos authentication, specify the --generate-token and --token-renewer <username> options when generating byos.properties, as described in .
Copy the byos-version.jar file from the clients directory from a node in your DataStax Enterprise cluster to the local Spark node.

The byos-version.jar file location depends on the type of installation.
```
scp user@dsenode1.example.com:/usr/share/dse/clients/dse-byos_2.11-6.0.2.jar byos-6.0.jar
```

Merge external Spark properties into byos.properties.

cat ${SPARK_HOME}/conf/spark-defaults.conf >> byos.properties

Optional: If you are using Kerberos authentication, set up a CRON job or other task scheduler to periodically call dse client-tool cassandra renew-token <token> where <token> is the encoded token string in byos.properties.
Start the Spark shell using the byos.properties and byos-version.jar file.
```
spark-shell --jars byos-6.0.jar --properties-file  byos.properties
```