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Jonathan Ellis commented on CASSANDRA-3709: ------------------------------------------- Here's the one we have in the DataStax docs. It could stand a little improvement, e.g. adding a help section, being more graceful w/ non integer input. {{ #! /usr/bin/python import sys if (len(sys.argv) > 1): num=int(sys.argv[1]) else: num=int(raw_input("How many nodes are in your cluster? ")) for i in range(0, num): print 'token %d: %d' % (i, (i*(2**127)/num)) }} > Add a token generator to standard tools > --------------------------------------- > > Key: CASSANDRA-3709 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-3709 > Project: Cassandra > Issue Type: New Feature > Components: Tools > Reporter: Jonathan Ellis > Assignee: paul cannon > Priority: Minor > Fix For: 1.1 > > > We recommend spacing nodes in a new cluster evenly around the ring; we should > provide a tool to generate appropriate tokens for a cluster of size X. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira