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Overview

You can choose to override the defaults used by Priam by specifying properties. The defaults provided in this page are implemented by PriamConfiguration class.

Setting up properties

PriamConfiguration looks for properties specified in PriamProperties SimpleDB domain. To create a property, create an item with the following attributes:

  • Item Name: Cluster name + property name
  • appId : Your cluster name
  • property: Name of the property
  • value: Property value

Cluster name is typically your ASG name(my_cluster_). Multi regional cluster with same cluster name should have ASG suffixed with a region identifier - (_my_cluster-useast1).

Example: If you want to change the jmx port to 7200 for your cluster ‘my_cluster’ set:

  • Item Name: my_clusterpriam.jmx.port
  • appId : my_cluster
  • property: priam.jmx.port
  • value: 7200

Properties used by Priam.

Ports

Property Default Description
priam.jmx.port 7199 JMX port
priam.thrift.port 9160 Thrift port
priam.storage.port 7000 Storage port used by Cassandra

Cassandra and JVM

Property Default Description
priam.clustername cass_cluster Name of the Cassandra cluster
priam.endpoint_snitch org.apache.cassandra.locator.Ec2Snitch End point snitch to be used in yaml
priam.multiregion.enable false Enables multi region if true
priam.zones.available First 3 zones in the region Comma separated list of zones where nodes are deployed.
priam.memory.compaction.limit 128 MB
priam.compaction.throughput 8 MB/sec
priam.heap.size 8G Cassandra heap size
priam.heap.newgen.size 2G Cassandra New gen size
priam.direct.memory.size 50G Cassandra direct mem size

Directories and scripts

Property Default Description
priam.cass.home /etc/cassandra Cassandra home dir
priam.cass.startscript /etc/init.d/cassandra start Cassandra startup script
priam.cass.stopscript /etc/init.d/cassandra stop Cassandra stop script
priam.data.location /var/lib/cassandra/data Data directory
priam.cache.location /var/lib/cassandra/saved_caches Cache directory
priam.commitlog.location /var/lib/cassandra/commitlog Commit log directory

Backup and restore

Property Default Description
priam.backup.threads 2 Number of backup threads
priam.backup.hour 12 Backup hour to run daily snapshot
priam.backup.incremental.enable true Enables incremental backup if true
priam.backup.chunksizemb 10 (MB)Part size when uploading to S3
priam.restore.prefix Defaults to current cluster and backup bucket. Prefix to be used for locating backups.
priam.restore.snapshot Specifies the time range to be searched when restoring. Setting this param will trigger restore.
priam.s3.bucket cassandra-archive S3 bucket used for backups
priam.s3.base_dir backup Specify a base prefix that will be used for all backups
priam.restore.threads 8 Number of restore threads to be used
priam.restore.closesttoken false If specified, a closes token is searched in the backups for restoring
priam.restore.keyspaces Restores the specified keyspace. Do not set this to restore all keyspaces.
priam.upload.throttle defaults to Integer.MAX_VALUE Throttle MB/sec for uploads
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