Cookbook: Installing DataStax Enterprise using APT repositories

JAVA installation

sudo apt-get install python-software-properties
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install oracle-java7-installer
 

JNA Instillation

sudo apt-get install libjna-java
source code: https://github.com/twall/jna
wget https://maven.java.net/content/repositories/releases/net/java/dev/jna/jna/4.1.0/jna-4.1.0.jar
sudo cp jna-4.1.0.jar /usr/share/java/jna.jar
sudo ln -s /usr/share/java/jna.jar /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-oracle/lib

echo "deb http://<username>:<password>@debian.datastax.com/enterprise stable main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/datastax.sources.list
sudo apt-get install curl
curl -L https://debian.datastax.com/debian/repo_key | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install dse-full opscenter


Post install configuration changes

cassandra.yaml

a) cluster_name: 'Test Cluster'
Change the 'Test Cluster' name to the your cluster name.
b) - seeds: "127.0.0.1"
Change from default IP address 127.0.0.1 with the IP addresses of the nodes in the cluster, it should be same for all the nodes in the cluster.
c) listen_address: localhost
Change the localhost to the IP address of the node the cassandra is installed.
d) rpc_address: localhost
Change the localhost to the IP address of the node the cassandra is installed.

To start :

$ sudo service dse start
$ sudo service datastax-agent start
To check if your cluster is up and running:
$ nodetool status

Ref: http://www.datastax.com/documentation/datastax_enterprise/4.6/datastax_enterprise/install/installDEBdse.html

Acknowledgements

Thank you Rakesh Budagam,Nageswara Rao Devarakonda for this post.