Make sure you have also setup the ephemeral drives as a raid device (use mdadm) and mounted it under /mnt/cassandra otherwise your data dir is the os partition which is usually very small.
Ben Bromhead Instaclustr | www.instaclustr.com | @instaclustr | +61 415 936 359 On 27 Aug 2014, at 8:21 pm, Stephen Portanova <sport...@gmail.com> wrote: > Worked great! Thanks Mark! > > > On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 2:00 AM, Mark Reddy <mark.l.re...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi stephen, > > I have never added a node via OpsCenter, so this may be a short coming of > that process. However in non OpsCenter installs you would have to create the > data directories first: > > sudo mkdir -p /mnt/cassandra/commitlog > sudo mkdir -p /mnt/cassandra/data > sudo mkdir -p /mnt/cassandra/saved_caches > > And then give the cassandra user ownership of those directories: > > sudo chown -R "cassandra:cassandra" /mnt/cassandra > > Once this is done Cassandra will have the correct directories and permission > to start up. > > > Mark > > > On 27 August 2014 09:50, Stephen Portanova <sport...@gmail.com> wrote: > I already have a 3node m3.large DSE cluster, but I can't seem to add another > m3.large node. I'm using the ubuntu-trusty-14.04-amd64-server-20140607.1 > (ami-a7fdfee2) AMI (instance-store backed, PV) on AWS, I install java 7 and > the JNA, then I go into opscenter to add a node. Things look good for 3 or 4 > green circles, until I either get this error: Start Errored: Timed out > waiting for Cassandra to start. or this error: Agent Connection Errored: > Timed out waiting for agent to connect. > > I check the system.log and output.log, and they both say: > INFO [main] 2014-08-27 08:17:24,642 CLibrary.java (line 121) JNA mlockall > successful > ERROR [main] 2014-08-27 08:17:24,644 CassandraDaemon.java (line 235) > Directory /mnt/cassandra/data doesn't exist > ERROR [main] 2014-08-27 08:17:24,645 CassandraDaemon.java (line 239) Has no > permission to create /mnt/cassandra/data directory > INFO [Thread-1] 2014-08-27 08:17:24,646 DseDaemon.java (line 477) DSE > shutting down... > ERROR [Thread-1] 2014-08-27 08:17:24,725 CassandraDaemon.java (line 199) > Exception in thread Thread[Thread-1,5,main] > java.lang.AssertionError > at > org.apache.cassandra.gms.Gossiper.addLocalApplicationState(Gossiper.java:1263) > at com.datastax.bdp.gms.DseState.setActiveStatus(DseState.java:171) > at com.datastax.bdp.server.DseDaemon.stop(DseDaemon.java:478) > at com.datastax.bdp.server.DseDaemon$1.run(DseDaemon.java:384) > > My agent.log file says: > Node is still provisioning, not attempting to determine ip. > > INFO [Initialization] 2014-08-27 08:40:57,848 Sleeping for 20s before trying > to determine IP over JMX again > > INFO [Initialization] 2014-08-27 08:41:17,849 Node is still provisioning, > not attempting to determine ip. > > INFO [Initialization] 2014-08-27 08:41:17,849 Sleeping for 20s before trying > to determine IP over JMX again > > INFO [Initialization] 2014-08-27 08:41:37,849 Node is still provisioning, > not attempting to determine ip. > > INFO [Initialization] 2014-08-27 08:41:37,850 Sleeping for 20s before trying > to determine IP over JMX again > > INFO [Initialization] 2014-08-27 08:41:57,850 Node is still provisioning, > not attempting to determine ip. > > > > I feel like I'm missing something easy with the mount, so if you could point > me in the right direction, I would really appreciate it! > > -- > Stephen Portanova > (480) 495-2634 > > > > > -- > Stephen Portanova > (480) 495-2634
