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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

  1. 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

  1. Run Scylla Manager server.

sudo systemctl start scylla-manager.service

  1. 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

  1. Enable bash completion for sctool - Scylla Manager CLI. Alternatively, you can just open a new terminal.

source /etc/bash_completion.d/sctool.bash

  1. 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.