Chapter 10. Maintenance
In this chapter, we look at some things you can do to keep Cassandra healthy. So put your operations hat on, and let’s get started.
The Nodetool ships with Cassandra and can be found in <cassandra-home>/bin. This is a command-line program that offers a rich array of ways to look at your cluster, understand its activity, and modify it. Nodetool lets you get limited statistics about the cluster, see the ranges each node maintains, move data from one node to another, decommission a node, and even repair a node that’s having trouble.
Note
Many of the tasks in Nodetool overlap with functions available in
the JMX interface. This is because, behind the scenes, Nodetool is
invoking JMX using a helper class called NodeProbe
.
So JMX is doing the real work, the NodeProbe
class
is used to connect to the JMX agent and sort out the data, and the
NodeCmd
class is used to present it in an
interactive command-line
interface.
To use Nodetool, you need to have the same environment as Cassandra itself; that is, it requires the same classpath and logging files.
Note
The command-line Nodetool is a wrapper
around org.apache.cassandra
.tools.NodeCmd
. Take a look at
the source for that class if you need to know more about exactly
what it’s doing.
Starting Nodetool is a breeze. Just open a terminal, navigate to <cassandra-home>, and enter the following command:
$bin/nodetool
Running it this way will error out, but you also cause the program to print a list of available commands, which are covered ...
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