It is usually a good idea to rename your cluster. Inside the conf/cassandra.yaml file, specify a new cluster_name property, overwriting the default Test Cluster:
cluster_name: 'PermanentWaves'
The num_tokens property default of 256 has proven to be too high for the newer, 3.x versions of Cassandra. Go ahead and set that to 24:
num_tokens: 24
To enable user security, change the authenticator and authorizer properties (from their defaults) to the following values:
authenticator: PasswordAuthenticatorauthorizer: CassandraAuthorizer
Cassandra installs with all security disabled by default. Even if you are not concerned with security on your local system, it makes sense to enable it to get used to working with authentication and ...
