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DSE 6.7 Administrator Guide (EOSL)

Getting started
Information about using DataStax Enterprise for Administrators.
Release notes
Release notes for DataStax Enterprise.
Installing
DataStax Enterprise 6.7 can be installed in a number of ways, depending on the purpose of the installation, the type of operating system, and the available permissions.
Configuration
Information about configuring DataStax Enterprise, such as recommended production setting, configuration files, snitch configuration, start-up parameters, heap dump settings, using virtual nodes, and more.
Initializing a cluster
Initializing a DataStax Enterprise (DSE) cluster includes configuring, and choosing how the data is divided across the nodes in the cluster.
Security
DataStax Enterprise 6.7 Security Guide.
DSE advanced functionality
Information on using DSE Analytics, DSEFS, DSE Search, DSE Graph, DSE Advanced Replication, DSE In-Memory, DSE Multi-Instance, DSE Tiered Storage and DSE Performance services.
- DSE Analytics
  DataStax Enterprise 6.7 Analytics includes integration with Apache Spark.
- DSE Search
  DSE Search allows you to quickly find data and provide a modern search experience for your users, helping you create features like product catalogs, document repositories, ad-hoc reporting engines, and more.
- DSE Graph
  Documentation for developers and administrators on installing, configuring, and using the features and capabilities of DSE Graph.
- DSE Management Services
  DSE Management Services automatically handle administration and maintenance tasks and assist with overall database cluster management.
  - Performance Service
    The DSE Performance Service automatically collects and organizes performance diagnostic information into a set of data dictionary tables that can be queried with CQL.
    - Performance Service
      The DSE Performance Service automatically collects and organizes performance diagnostic information into a set of data dictionary tables that can be queried with CQL.
    - Configuring Performance Service replication strategy
      Steps to configure the Performance Service replication strategy.
    - Collecting data
      Tasks to enable and configure collection of data using the Performance Service.
      - Collecting slow queries
        Steps to identify slow queries on a cluster to easily find and tune poorly performing queries using the DSE Performance Service.
      - Collecting system level diagnostics
        Steps to collect system-wide performance information about a cluster using the DSE Performance Service.
      - Collecting object I/O level diagnostics
        Steps to collect data on object I/O statistics using the DSE Performance Service.
      - Statistics gathered for objects
        Information about the statistics that are gathered for objects with the DataStax Enterprise Performance Service.
      - Collecting database summary diagnostics
        Steps to enable collecting database summary diagnostics using the DataStax Enterprise Performance Service.
      - Collecting cluster summary diagnostics
        Steps to enable collecting cluster summary diagnostics using the DataStax Enterprise Performance Service.
      - Collecting histogram diagnostics
        Steps to enable collecting histogram diagnostics using the DataStax Enterprise Performance Service.
      - Collecting user activity diagnostics
        Steps to enable collecting user activity diagnostics using the DSE Performance Service.
      - Statistics gathered for user activity
        Information about the statistics that are gathered for user activity using the DataStax Enterprise Performance Service.
    - Collecting search data
      Edit dse.yaml to enable and configure collection of search data.
    - Monitoring Spark with Spark Performance Objects
      Performance data is stored in a table to allow you to monitor and tune Spark analytics jobs.
    - Diagnostic table reference
      A complete listing and brief description of DSE Performance Service diagnostic tables.
    - Solr diagnostic table reference
      FAQs about using, and log information, snapshot, statistics in the DSE Search Performance Service diagnostic tables.
  - Best Practice Service
    Scans DataStax Enterprise clusters and automatically detects issues that threaten the cluster’s security, availability, or performance.
  - Capacity Service
    Accumulates cluster health and resource utilization metrics to perform historical trend analysis.
  - Repair Service
    Performs repair operations in the background across a DataStax Enterprise cluster with minimal impact.
- NodeSync service
  Continuous background repair that virtually eliminates manual efforts to run repair operations in a DataStax cluster.
- DSE Advanced Replication
  Documentation for configuring and using configurable distributed data replication.
- DSE In-Memory
  DataStax Enterprise includes DSE In-Memory for storing data to and accessing data exclusively from memory.
- DSE Multi-Instance
  Documentation for running multiple DataStax Enterprise nodes on a single host machine.
- DSE Tiered Storage
  Documentation for automating smart data movement across different types of storage media.
Tools
Tools include nodetool, dse, and dsefs shell commands, dsetool, fs-stress tool, pre-flight check, and yaml_diff tools, and the sstableloader.
Operations
DataStax Enterprise operation topics, such as node and datacenter operations, changing replication strategies, configuring compaction and compression, caching, and tuning Bloom filters.
Planning
Hardware selection, estimating disk capacity, anti-patterns, cluster testing and more.

Enable data collection

Tasks to enable and configure collection of data using the Performance Service.

Collecting slow queries
Steps to identify slow queries on a cluster to easily find and tune poorly performing queries using the DSE Performance Service.
Collecting system level diagnostics
Steps to collect system-wide performance information about a cluster using the DSE Performance Service.
Collecting object I/O level diagnostics
Steps to collect data on object I/O statistics using the DSE Performance Service.
Statistics gathered for objects
Information about the statistics that are gathered for objects with the DataStax Enterprise Performance Service.
Collecting database summary diagnostics
Steps to enable collecting database summary diagnostics using the DataStax Enterprise Performance Service.
Collecting cluster summary diagnostics
Steps to enable collecting cluster summary diagnostics using the DataStax Enterprise Performance Service.
Collecting histogram diagnostics
Steps to enable collecting histogram diagnostics using the DataStax Enterprise Performance Service.
Collecting user activity diagnostics
Steps to enable collecting user activity diagnostics using the DSE Performance Service.
Statistics gathered for user activity
Information about the statistics that are gathered for user activity using the DataStax Enterprise Performance Service.

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