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Mastering Apache Cassandra 3.x - Third Edition
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Mastering Apache Cassandra 3.x - Third Edition

by Aaron Ploetz, Tejaswi Malepati
October 2018
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
348 pages
10h
English
Packt Publishing
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The nodetool utility

Nodetool is an inbuilt CLI utility tool by Apache Cassandra for monitoring and managing Cassandra clusters. It even includes the ability to trigger commands on a remote node, as long as remote JMX has been enabled along with the required firewalls. Running a nodetool command remotely is very helpful as it wouldn't require SSH. But at the same time, it would be more prone to a security risk if endpoints are wide open to the public. The remote command can be triggered with the -h parameter through nodetool:

$CASSANDRA_HOME/bin/nodetool -h <ipAddress of host> ring

Based on the kind of installation, nodetool can be found in corresponding bin directories. Refer to the nodetool docs for further information at Apache-Cassandra: ...

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