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- Setup SSL for Solr Cluster with internode and Client-to-node encryption
- Solr Configuration Best Practices and Troubleshooting Tips
- FAQ - Does DSE Search support multiple data directories for Solr indexes
- HOW TO - setup Solr Queries to measure percentile latencies
- Search queries do not return map data, results in Cql3CassandraRowReader.java warnings "Cannot find dynamic field"
- FAQ - Setting DEBUG in the system.log for DSE Solr See all 30 articles
Install/Upgrade
- Can't start node with "Unable to activate plugin" after upgrade to DSE 5.1
- Example: Upgrade from 4.0.3 to 4.8.4 - Encrypted Table Issues - Proof of concept
- "Unable to find property 'threshold_ms'" seen when running upgradesstables
- Bootstap fails with "Unable to gossip with any seeds" yet new node can connect to seed nodes
- Installing an older version of DSE
- Why do I see lots of SchemaDisagreementErrors when upgrading a cluster with search nodes from 2.1 to 2.2?
General
- Intermittent gossip issues when using cassandra-topology.properties with GossipingPropertyFileSnitch
- DSE 4.8.5 - Centos 6.7 - What packages are required and what are the dependencies
- Nodes appear unresponsive due to a Linux futex_wait() kernel bug
- Troubleshooting hanging repairs
- Troubleshooting custom logger on Apache Cassandra 2.1
- nodetool fails with: Cannot resolve '127.0.0.1' : unknown host See all 115 articles
Analytics
- Connecting to DSE Spark Hadoop from a client machine
- FAQ - How to connect to DSE 5.0 from R using the Simba driver
- The importance of NTP to spark streaming
- DSE spark-submit driver-class-path option does not place JAR in the driver classpath
- Spark SQL throws IllegalArgumentException when hostname is not resolvable
- Avoiding out of memory exceptions with large queries against DSE thrift server See all 37 articles
Repair Service
- OpsCenter backup fails with "number of files to be backed up larger than queue size"
- OpsCenter Repair Service attempting to repair a dropped keyspace or table
- Repair service may fail due to lost JMX notifications from Cassandra
- Repair service incorrectly reporting timeout warnings in OpsCenter releases prior to 5.2.3
- Repair service snapshots can cause disk usage growth
- OpsCenter repair service fails See all 7 articles
LCM
- LCM Appears to Display Duplicate Clusters
- Lifecycle Manager Error: "meld.core.MeldException: PID file already exists: /var/run/meld.pid"
- Lifecycle Manager issues "--callback-address is required" job error
- Lifecycle Manager: auto_bootstrap null after running configure on an imported cluster
- Lifecycle Manager: Offline Installation of DSE
- Lifecycle Manager: Cloning Configuration Profiles See all 10 articles
General
- Example: How to Configure OpsCenter with Active Directory LDAP using sAMAccountName for authentication
- Example: How to Configure OpsCenter with Active Directory LDAP using UID for authentication and no matching sAMAccountName/CN
- Unable to generate Diagnostics Report in OpsCenter 5.2.0 with error "'str' object has no attribute 'role_name'"
- OpsCenter 6.0 fails to start on systems with Java 9
- Historical data for slow query log not available in OpsCenter 6.1 Performance Service
- How to disable RC4 cipher (and others) in OpsCenter 6 See all 45 articles
Backups
- Clearing out Backups History in OpsCenter 6.0 and 6.1 GUI
- OpsCenter restore for DSE 5.0+ clusters does not revert object permissions
- Backups destination disappeared, scheduled backups stop working
- Opscenter is unable to restore from S3 bucket when the number of backup files is very large
- OpsCenter backup to S3 fails when keyspaces are empty
- Schedule a Backup with Amazon AWS S3 Destination using Opscenter API See all 13 articles
Agents
- DataStax agent fails to connect to the local node with ‘Unexpected error connecting to Cassandra , retrying soon , java.lang.NullPointerException'
- Datastax Agent Required Keyspace Permissions
- OpsCenter agent not starting fully when Kerberos authentication is used
- Enabling Agent SSL in LCM-installed clusters
- OpsCenter 6.0 agents unable to save metrics, leads to "OutOfMemoryError"
- AWS ELB idle timeout terminating Opscenter/Agent Stomp connection See all 15 articles
Java
- FAQ - Why does Java driver setFetchSize() return all rows?
- Java driver queries result in "InvalidTypeException: Not enough bytes to deserialize <type>"
- Clients using the java driver seeing "NoHostAvailableException" on nodes that are still reachable
- Java driver executeAsync() threads can still get blocked if polling options are in need of adjustment
- "AlreadyExistsException" seen when creating tables with the Java driver