Re: Cluster Management

2013-08-29 Thread Robert Coli
On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 4:25 PM, Anthony Grasso wrote: > Puppet was the first thing that came to mind for us as well. In addition, > we had the same thought about auto-restarting nodes when the configuration > is changed. If a configuration on all the nodes is changed, we would want > to restart o

Re: Cluster Management

2013-08-29 Thread Jonathan Haddad
An alternative to cssh is fabric. It's very flexible in that you can automate almost any repetitive task that you'd send to machines in a cluster, and it's written in python, meaning if you're in AWS you can mix it with boto to automate pretty much anything you want. On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 4:25

Re: Cluster Management

2013-08-29 Thread Anthony Grasso
Thanks Nate! We will look into this one to see if we can use it. Regards, Anthony On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 12:22 AM, Nate McCall wrote: > >> For example, if I want to make some changes to the configuration file >> that resides on each node, is there a tool that will propagate the change >> to ea

Re: Cluster Management

2013-08-29 Thread Anthony Grasso
Hi Particia, Thank you for the feedback. It has been helpful. On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 12:02 AM, Patricia Gorla wrote: > Anthony, > > We use a number of tools to manage our Cassandra cluster. > > * Datastax OpsCenter [0] for at a glance information, and trending > statistics. You can also run op

Re: Cluster Management

2013-08-26 Thread Nate McCall
> > > For example, if I want to make some changes to the configuration file that > resides on each node, is there a tool that will propagate the change to > each node? > > You may also want to take a look at Priam from the Netflix folks: https://github.com/Netflix/Priam Assumes AWS (though some of

Re: Cluster Management

2013-08-26 Thread Patricia Gorla
Anthony, We use a number of tools to manage our Cassandra cluster. * Datastax OpsCenter [0] for at a glance information, and trending statistics. You can also run operations through here, though I prefer to use nodetool for any mutative operation. * nodetool for ad hoc status checks, and day-to-d