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Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:25:03 -0000
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Subject: [Cassandra Wiki] Update of "Setup" by JonathanEllis

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The following page has been changed by JonathanEllis:
http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/Setup

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- There is a standard config that comes with the download of Cassandra. Here is a description of some of the basic information that needs to be in the configuration file:
+ We used to describe some of the options in conf/storage-conf.xml here, but it quickly became out of date and confusing rather than helpful.  If you followed a link here from elsewhere in the wiki, please update that page to point people to the canonical source instead.
  
- ||'''Property'''||'''Description'''||'''Default'''||
- ||!ClusterName||The name of this cluster. This is mainly used to prevent machines in another logical cluster from joining any other cluster.||Test||
- ||!HashingStrategy||Partitioning strategy required. Choices are RANDOM and OPHF||RANDOM||
- ||!RackAware||Replication policy preferred. For now just say false||false||
- ||!MulticastChannel||This is not used anymore.||||
- ||!ReplicationFactor||Replication factor desired||3||
- ||!ZookeeperAddress||This is not used currently.||||
- ||!RpcTimeoutInMillis||RPC timeout in milliseconds||2000||
- ||!StoragePort||TCP port on which all inter cluster communication takes place.||7000||
- ||!ControlPort||UDP port on which all cluster membership communications occur.||7001||
- ||ColumnIndexSizeInKB||Size after which columns are indexed by the system||256KB||
- ||!HttpPort||HTTP port for the WEB dashboard.||80||
- ||!MetadataDirectory||Cassandra metadata information location.||||
- ||!CommitLogDirectory||Location of the commit log.||||
- ||CommitLogRotationThresholdInMB||Size after which commit log needs to be rotated.||128||
- ||Seeds||This is for dynamic node discovery. Nodes discover other nodes by initially contacting the seeds.||||
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- After the installation step navigate to the directory that contains the ANT build config and type "ant jar" at the prompt. Some common problems in the deployment steps are:
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-  * Modify the start-server script to the -Dstorage-config property to the location which contains the storage-conf.xml
-  * Make sure the log4j.properties also resides in the same location as above.
-  * Make sure the directory location for the log4j log files are pre-created or you could make them part of the start-server script.
-  * Modify the Java heap settings in the start-server as per your requirements.
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- Typical Cassandra deployment has been on machines with 16GB RAM dual CPU quad core machines and more disks the better. We have typically used 3 disks per machine.
-