Hello Ben, thank you for sharing the cassandra-reaper reposiroty and about the security advice. Regards L
On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 4:54 PM, Ben Bromhead <b...@instaclustr.com> wrote: > Hi Luigi > > Under the hood, nodetool is actually just a command line wrapper around > certain JMX calls. If you are looking to automate some more of commonplace > nodetool actions, have a look at the nodetool source and it will show > exactly what JMX calls (and parameters) are being passed. > > One thing to keep in mind with JMX, is it does allow a remote user to do > some scary things to Cassandra and it has included remote code execution > vulns. So ensure you lock down JMX thoroughly (password/username auth, > certification auth, fw rules etc). > > For the other most common management, repairs, check out Cassandra reaper > https://github.com/thelastpickle/cassandra-reaper. > > Ben > > On Thu, 27 Apr 2017 at 16:37 Luigi Tagliamonte <lu...@sysdig.com> wrote: > >> Hello Cassandra users, >> my cluster is getting bigger and I was looking into automating some >> tedious operations like the node cleanup after adding a new node to the >> cluster. >> >> I gave a quick search and I didn't find any good available option, so I >> decided to look into the JMX interface (In the storage service, I found the >> method: forceKeyspaceCleanup that seems a good candidate), before going >> hardcore with SSH+nodetool sessions. >> >> I was wondering if somebody here wants to share his experiences about >> this task, and what do you think about JMX approach instead of the SSH one. >> >> Thank you. >> >> -- >> Luigi >> --- >> “The only way to get smarter is by playing a smarter opponent.” >> > -- > Ben Bromhead > CTO | Instaclustr <https://www.instaclustr.com/> > +1 650 284 9692 <(650)%20284-9692> > Managed Cassandra / Spark on AWS, Azure and Softlayer > -- Luigi --- “The only way to get smarter is by playing a smarter opponent.”
