google-templatescassandra

Understand the default configuration

The grant tables define the initial Cassandra user accounts and their access privileges. The default configuration consists of one privileged account with a username of cassandra. It has the following privileges:

  • Has all privileges including remote access to the database.
  • Can create new users and assign them different roles.

To check the list of users and their privileges, execute the following command in the database:

cassandra@cqlsh> LIST USERS;

name      | super
-----------+-------
cassandra |  True

Cassandra version

In order to see which Cassandra version your system is running, execute the following command:

cqlsh --version

Cassandra configuration file

The Cassandra configuration file is located at /opt/bitnami/cassandra/conf/cassandra.yaml.

The Cassandra official documentation has more details about how to configure the Cassandra database.

Cassandra ports

The default ports for Cassandra are:

  • Client port: 9042.
  • Transport port: 7000.
  • JMX port: 7199.

Cassandra Process Identification Number

The Cassandra .pid file allows other programs to find out the PID (Process Identification Number) of a running script. Find it at /opt/bitnami/cassandra/tmp/cassandra.pid.

Cassandra log file

The Cassandra .log file contains a record with all the events that occur while the database is running in the server. Find it at /opt/bitnami/cassandra/logs/cassandra.log.

Cassandra debug log file

The Cassandra debug.log file contains status and error messages useful for debugging the server. Find it at /opt/bitnami/cassandra/logs/debug.log.

Last modification August 30, 2018