October 2018
Beginner to intermediate
348 pages
10h
English
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: ...