what other ports than 7199 need to be open for nodetool to work?

Hi, We opened port 7199 on a cassandra node, but were unable to get a nodetool to talk to it remotely unless we turn off the firewall entirely. So what other ports should be opened for this -- online posts all indicate that JMX uses a random dynamic port, which would be difficult to create a

Re: what other ports than 7199 need to be open for nodetool to work?

You are correct about the second random dynamic port. There is a ticket open to fix that as well as some other jmx issues: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-2967 Regarding nodetool, it doesn't do anything special. Nodetool is often used to connect to 'localhost' which generally

Re: what other ports than 7199 need to be open for nodetool to work?

Thanks Nick -- I didn't know about this ticket. Good to know. Yes, nodetool doesn't do anything special - but I still wish I could use nodetool to examine other nodes, instead of having to ssh to other nodes first and then nodetool each one (i am lazy :-). -- Y. On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 3:50

Re: what other ports than 7199 need to be open for nodetool to work?

I have documented some of the things you can do to make the random port nature of JMX happy. http://www.jointhegrid.com/highperfcassandra/?p=140 Other options are setting up mx4j or using jmxterm, or setting up a sock proxy and tell jconsole to use your proxy. Also there is the xwindows over