Github user ctubbsii commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/accumulo/pull/160#discussion_r85229947
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@@ -99,13 +114,43 @@ The initialization command will prompt for the
following information.
prompts for its password. This information will be needed to later
connect
to Accumulo.
-Multiple Nodes
---------------
+## Run Accumulo
+
+There are two primary methods for running Accumulo:
+
+1. Run individual Accumulo services using `accumulo-service`. Useful if
you are
+ using a cluster management tool (i.e Ansible, Salt, etc) or init.d
scripts to
+ start Accumulo.
-Skip this section if running Accumulo on a single node. Accumulo has
-coordinating, monitoring, and worker processes that run on specified nodes
in
-the cluster. The following files should be populated with a newline
separated
-list of node names. Must change from localhost.
+2. Run an Accumulo cluster on one or more nodes using `accumulo-cluster`.
Useful for
--- End diff --
It would be useful to mention that accumulo-cluster utilizes
accumulo-service, and inherits the added functionality/side-effects of that
script.
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