Learning Apache Cassandra - Second Edition

Starting the 3-node cluster

Now that we have laid the groundwork to set up a 3-node cluster, we are ready to start the cluster. To start the cluster, you need to start one node at a time. Let's start the first node by running the following command:

$ CASSANDRA_DIR1/bin/cassandra -f

To figure out whether the first node has started or not, you can use the nodetool utility. We will take a look at nodetool in depth later, but for now, run the following command:

$ CASSANDRA_DIR1/bin/nodetool status

You should see a single node up and running within the cluster. The UN indicates the status is UP and the state is NORMAL:

After the first node ...