Setup Scylla Manager¶
The following document walks you through the Scylla Manager setup phase, assuming you completed the installation. When you install Scylla Manager, it installs a local instance of Scylla to use as it’s database. If you want to setup Scylla Manager with a remote database, use this guide first.
Run setup script¶
The Scylla Manager setup script is a wizard that automates the configuration of Scylla Manager.
Procedure
Run the
scyllamgr_setup
script to configure the service. The wizard contains questions about enabling services. If you answer no to the questions, you will have to start a service manually each time you want to use it.
sudo scyllamgr_setup
Do you want to configure and enable the local ScyllaDB instance as a backend storage for this Scylla Manager installation?
Answer yes to configure and automatically start ScyllaDB when the node boots; answer no to skip this step.
[YES/no]
Do you want to enable Scylla Manager?
Answer yes to automatically start Scylla Manager when the node boots; answer no to skip this step.
[YES/no]
Created symlink from /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/scylla-server.service to /usr/lib/systemd/system/scylla-server.service.
Scylla Manager setup finished.
Start Scylla Manager¶
Scylla Manager integrates with systemd
and can be started and stopped using systemctl
command.
Procedure
Run Scylla Manager server.
sudo systemctl start scylla-manager.service
Verify the Scylla Manager is running.
sudo systemctl status scylla-manager.service
● scylla-manager.service - Scylla Manager Server
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/scylla-manager.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
Active: active (running) since Fri 2018-08-31 12:15:30 UTC; 5s ago
Main PID: 32355 (scylla-manager)
Tasks: 9
Memory: 5.3M
CGroup: /system.slice/scylla-manager.service
└─32355 /usr/bin/scylla-manager
Enable bash completion for sctool - Scylla Manager CLI. Alternatively, you can just open a new terminal.
source /etc/bash_completion.d/sctool.bash
Confirm sctool is running by displaying the sctool version.
sctool version
Client version: 1.2.0-0.20180831.923311e
Server version: 1.2.0-0.20180831.923311e
Note
The first time you run this command, Scylla Manager may take a few seconds to start.
Add a cluster¶
Continue with adding a cluster.