Maintaining your Cassandra database

You should perform regular maintenance on your Feature Server Cassandra database, to be certain that the database and its backups are all in sync. When any of these events occur, run the corresponding maintenance software routine:

• A week has passed.
• An upgrade triggered a Feature Server restart.
• You added new nodes to the ring, or removed nodes.

Run weekly on all Feature Server nodes

You can perform this procedure:

• as a cron job on Linux. (See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cron.)
• as a scheduled task on Windows.

cd /''companyname''/fs/work/jetty0.0.0.08080fs.
war_
fsany/
webapp/WEBINF/
lib
java cp
libthrift0.7.0.
jar:cassandrathrift1.1.6.
jar:commonscli1.1.
jar:cassandraall1.1.6.
jar org.apache.cassandra.tools.NodeCmd h
localhost p
9192 repair

• Or you can use the procedure described in Backing up and restoring Cassandra data.

Run after a Feature Server restart

You can trigger a restart by adding or removing Feature Server nodes, in a new or existing data center.

cd /''companyname''/fs/work/jetty0.0.0.08080fs
war_fsany/webapp/WEBINF/lib java cp libthrift0.7.0. jar:cassandrathrift1.1.6. jar:commonscli1.1. jar:cassandraall1.1.6. jar org.apache.cassandra.tools.NodeCmd h localhost p 9192 repair

Running Nodetool on a Feature Server Host

The nodetool is a Cassandra utility for managing a Cassandra cluster.

1. Move to this directory: <Feature Server Installation Directory>/work/jetty-<vms_host>-<port>-fs.war-_fs-any-/webapp/WEB-INF/lib
   where...
   <Feature Server Installation Directory> is where Feature Server is installed for your company.
   <vms_host> is the IP address of the vms host parameter that Feature Server started with, defined in launcher.xml or in the command line. The default is 0.0.0.0.
   <port> is the port number that Feature Server started with, defined in launcher.xml. The default is 8080.
2. Run the nodetool utility.
   • In Linux: (.jar separated by “:”)
     java -cp libthrift-0.7.0.jar:cassandra-thrift-1.1.6.jar:commons-cli-1.1.jar:cassandra-all-1.1.6.jar org.apache.cassandra.tools.NodeCmd -h localhost -p <jmx_port> <nodetool command>
   • In Windows: (.jar separated by “;”)
     java -cp libthrift-0.7.0.jar;cassandra-thrift-1.1.6.jar;commons-cli-1.1.jar;cassandra-all-1.1.6.jar org.apache.cassandra.tools.NodeCmd -h localhost -p <jmx_port> <nodetool command>
     where...
     <jmx_port> is the JMX port number that Feature Server started with, defined in launcher.xml. Default=9192.
     <nodetool command> can be ring [keyspace name] OR removetoken <token> OR repair OR flush

For example, the following command line runs nodetool and sends <nodetool command> ring to Feature Server running on the local host:

cd companyname/fs/work/jetty-0.0.0.0-8080-fs.war-_fs-any-/webapp/WEB-INF/lib java -cp libthrift-0.7.0.jar:cassandra-thrift-1.1.6.jar:commons-cli-1.1.jar:cassandra-all-1.1.6.jar org.apache.cassandra.tools.NodeCmd -h localhost -p 9192 ring sipfs

Feature Server Cassandra Cluster Maintenance

When you remove a node from the ring, you must also remove the corresponding tokens. Use these software procedures:

Run nodetool ring to obtain tokens. (See Running Nodetool on Feature Server Cassandra Node)
Run nodetool removetoken to remove nodes from the ring.
Run nodetool repair.
Run nodetool ring to validate removal.

For example, run nodetool ring with this code:

cd genesys/fs/work/jetty-0.0.0.0-8080-fs.war-_fs-any-/webapp/WEB-INF/lib
java -cp libthrift-0.7.0.jar:cassandra-thrift-1.1.6.jar:commons-cli-1.1.jar:cassandra-all-1.1.6.jar org.apache.cassandra.tools.NodeCmd -h localhost -p 9192 ring sipfs

…to see the following output returned:

<fs-host-IP1> DC1 RAC1 Up Normal 1.17 MB100.00% 167086018864645871692761019448293152722
<fs-host-IP2>DC1 RAC2 Up Normal 1.29 MB 100.00% 26003787676682001822918611294472056316
<fs-host-IP3> DC2 RAC1 Down Normal 1.15 MB 100.00% 41007983964572150951275225962045789866
<fs-host-IP4> DC2 RAC2 Down Normal 1.16 MB 100.00% 53685600614278234503162023330018045221

The following nodetool commands remove <fs-host-IP3> and <fs-host-IP4> from the ring

cd genesys/fs/work/jetty-0.0.0.0-8080-fs.war-_fs-any-/webapp/WEB-INF/lib 
java -cp libthrift-0.7.0.jar:cassandra-thrift-1.1.6.jar:commons-cli-1.1.jar:cassandra-all-1.1.6.jar org.apache.cassandra.tools.NodeCmd -h localhost -p 9192 removetoken41007983964572150951275225962045789866 
java -cp libthrift-0.7.0.jar:cassandra-thrift-1.1.6.jar:commons-cli-1.1.jar:cassandra-all-1.1.6.jar org.apache.cassandra.tools.NodeCmd -h localhost -p 9192 removetoken53685600614278234503162023330018045221

After token removal, running nodetool ring should provide the following output:

<fs-host-IP1> DC1 RAC1 Up Normal 1.17 MB 100.00% 167086018864645871692761019448293152722
<fs-host-IP2> DC1 RAC2 Up Normal 1.29 MB 100.00% 26003787676682001822918611294472056316