Default file locations for tarball installations
Locations when installing from DataStax Enterprise binary tarball.
The default location of the files depends on how DataStax Enterprise is installed.
Default installation location
The default installation_location depends on where you extracted DataStax Enterprise:
Default directories for cassanda.yaml and dse.yaml
Directories | Description |
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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 |
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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:
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/var/lib/cassandra |
commitlog, data, hints, saved_caches directories |
/var/log/cassandra |
Log files, including:
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Default DSEFS data directory
The default location for the DSEFS data directory is /var/lib/dsefs.Default DSE Graph directories
Directories | Description |
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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 |
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installation_location/resources/solr/conf | Solr configuration |
installation_location/resources/solr/lib | Solr driver |
installation_location/demos/wikipedia | Search - Wikipedia demo |
/var/log/cassandra | Solr log messages are in the system.log file. |
Default Spark directories
Directories | Description |
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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 |
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installation_location/resources/cassandra/conf/logback.xml | logback.xml is the logback configuration file |
Default location audit logs
Directories | Description |
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/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 |
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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.