I've submitted a contrib. (windows.zip) to the JIRA issue/ticket
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-292.
The zip contains everything needed to run Cassandra as a Windows Service. It
should be unzipped under the contrib directory. It includes an Ant build script
and unit test. I've included in the bin directory everything needed to use it
and building it is not technically necessary.
Items to note:
* Uses Apache Procrun
* Simple service.bat file to install/remove service (>service install)
* Binaries included for 32 bit and 64 bit
* Configuration utility included (cassandraw.exe)
* Tested against Cassandra 0.6.1 and 0.6.3
* Tested on XP (32bit), W7 (64bit) and WS2008 R1/R2 (64bit)
Please review the README.txt file. Hopefully this can be included as a contrib
in a future release.
Regards,
Todd
-----Original Message-----
From: Jonathan Ellis [mailto:jbel...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, July 05, 2010 6:59 AM
To: user@cassandra.apache.org
Subject: Re: Running Cassandra as a Windows Service
If you'd like to get it included in the Cassandra tree, submitting it
to https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-292 would be a good
start.
On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 2:54 PM, Kochheiser,Todd W - TOK-DITT-1
<twkochhei...@bpa.gov> wrote:
> Apache's Procrun is a "real windows service" similar to the one from Tanuki
> Software. In regards to batch files, they are not used by Procrun in any
> way. The batch file I created simply makes installing and removing the
> service super easy. I've used the Tanuki Java Wrapper Service before and it
> also works very nicely. However, since Cassandra is an Apache project, it
> seemed most appropriate to go ahead and use a Windows service runner from
> Apache and to avoid any possible licensing or bundling issues, especially
> since I'd like to see it included as a contrib. And, Procrun has been used
> for years by various Apache project with Apache Tomcat probably being the
> most famous. Regardless, the Tanuki runner works well.
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> Todd
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> PS: I believe the community version of the Java Serviced Wrapper from Tanuki
> is GPL v2, but I could be wrong. Their licensing is a mix of
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> ________________________________
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> From: Richard Grossman [mailto:richie...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Sunday, July 04, 2010 3:37 AM
> To: user@cassandra.apache.org
> Subject: Re: Running Cassandra as a Windows Service
>
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>
> Hello
>
> Why not using Java Wrapper Service?
> http://wrapper.tanukisoftware.org/doc/english/download.jsp
> You can configure any java process as real windows services instead of batch
> files
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> Richard
>
> On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 8:34 PM, Kochheiser,Todd W - TO-DITT1
> <twkochhei...@bpa.gov> wrote:
>
> For various reasons I am required to deploy systems on Windows. As such, I
> went looking for information on running Cassandra as a Windows service.
> I've read some of the user threads regarding running Cassandra as a Windows
> service, such as this one:
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> http://www.mail-archive.com/user@cassandra.apache.org/msg01656.html
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> I also found the following JIRA issue:
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> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-292
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> As it didn't look like anyone has contributed a formal solution and having
> some experience using Apache's Procrun
> (http://commons.apache.org/daemon/procrun.html), I decided to go ahead and
> write a batch script and a simple "WindowsService" class to accomplish the
> task. The WindowsService class only makes calls to public methods in
> CassandraDeamon and is fairly simple. In combination with the batch script,
> it is very easy to install and remove the service. At this point, I've
> installed Cassandra as a Windows service on XP (32 bit), Windows 7 (64 bit)
> and Windows Server 2008 R1/R2 (64 bit). It should work fine on other
> version of Windows (2K, 2K3).
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> Questions:
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> 1. Has anyone else already done this work?
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> 2. If not, I wouldn't mind sharing the code/script or contributing it
> back to the project. Is there any interest in this from the Cassandra dev
> team or the user community?
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> Ideally the WindowsService could be included in the distributed
> source/binary distributions (perhaps in a contrib area) as well as the batch
> script and associated procrun executables. Or, perhaps it could be posted
> to a Cassandra community site (is there one?).
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> Todd
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Jonathan Ellis
Project Chair, Apache Cassandra
co-founder of Riptano, the source for professional Cassandra support
http://riptano.com
