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[4/6] Support for cassandra v2 and vnodes

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+[#ftl]
+#
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+# or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+# distributed with this work for additional information
+# regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+# to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+# "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+# with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#  http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+# software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+# "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+# KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+# specific language governing permissions and limitations
+# under the License.
+#
+# Cassandra storage config YAML 
+
+# NOTE:
+#   See http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/StorageConfiguration for
+#   full explanations of configuration directives
+# /NOTE
+
+# The name of the cluster. This is mainly used to prevent machines in
+# one logical cluster from joining another.
+cluster_name: '${entity.clusterName}'
+
+# This defines the number of tokens randomly assigned to this node on the ring
+# The more tokens, relative to other nodes, the larger the proportion of data
+# that this node will store. You probably want all nodes to have the same number
+# of tokens assuming they have equal hardware capability.
+#
+# If you leave this unspecified, Cassandra will use the default of 1 token for legacy compatibility,
+# and will use the initial_token as described below.
+#
+# Specifying initial_token will override this setting.
+#
+# If you already have a cluster with 1 token per node, and wish to migrate to 
+# multiple tokens per node, see http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/Operations
+num_tokens: ${entity.numTokensPerNode?c}
+
+# initial_token allows you to specify tokens manually.  While you can use it with
+# vnodes (num_tokens > 1, above) -- in which case you should provide a 
+# comma-separated list -- it's primarily used when adding nodes to legacy clusters 
+# that do not have vnodes enabled.
+# initial_token: ${entity.tokensAsString}
+
+# May either be "true" or "false" to enable globally, or contain a list
+# of data centers to enable per-datacenter.
+# hinted_handoff_enabled: DC1,DC2
+# See http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/HintedHandoff
+hinted_handoff_enabled: true
+# this defines the maximum amount of time a dead host will have hints
+# generated.  After it has been dead this long, new hints for it will not be
+# created until it has been seen alive and gone down again.
+max_hint_window_in_ms: 10800000 # 3 hours
+# Maximum throttle in KBs per second, per delivery thread.  This will be
+# reduced proportionally to the number of nodes in the cluster.  (If there
+# are two nodes in the cluster, each delivery thread will use the maximum
+# rate; if there are three, each will throttle to half of the maximum,
+# since we expect two nodes to be delivering hints simultaneously.)
+hinted_handoff_throttle_in_kb: 1024
+# Number of threads with which to deliver hints;
+# Consider increasing this number when you have multi-dc deployments, since
+# cross-dc handoff tends to be slower
+max_hints_delivery_threads: 2
+
+# Maximum throttle in KBs per second, total. This will be
+# reduced proportionally to the number of nodes in the cluster.
+batchlog_replay_throttle_in_kb: 1024
+
+# Authentication backend, implementing IAuthenticator; used to identify users
+# Out of the box, Cassandra provides org.apache.cassandra.auth.{AllowAllAuthenticator,
+# PasswordAuthenticator}.
+#
+# - AllowAllAuthenticator performs no checks - set it to disable authentication.
+# - PasswordAuthenticator relies on username/password pairs to authenticate
+#   users. It keeps usernames and hashed passwords in system_auth.credentials table.
+#   Please increase system_auth keyspace replication factor if you use this authenticator.
+authenticator: AllowAllAuthenticator
+
+# Authorization backend, implementing IAuthorizer; used to limit access/provide permissions
+# Out of the box, Cassandra provides org.apache.cassandra.auth.{AllowAllAuthorizer,
+# CassandraAuthorizer}.
+#
+# - AllowAllAuthorizer allows any action to any user - set it to disable authorization.
+# - CassandraAuthorizer stores permissions in system_auth.permissions table. Please
+#   increase system_auth keyspace replication factor if you use this authorizer.
+authorizer: AllowAllAuthorizer
+
+# Validity period for permissions cache (fetching permissions can be an
+# expensive operation depending on the authorizer, CassandraAuthorizer is
+# one example). Defaults to 2000, set to 0 to disable.
+# Will be disabled automatically for AllowAllAuthorizer.
+permissions_validity_in_ms: 2000
+
+# The partitioner is responsible for distributing groups of rows (by
+# partition key) across nodes in the cluster.  You should leave this
+# alone for new clusters.  The partitioner can NOT be changed without
+# reloading all data, so when upgrading you should set this to the
+# same partitioner you were already using.
+#
+# Besides Murmur3Partitioner, partitioners included for backwards
+# compatibility include RandomPartitioner, ByteOrderedPartitioner, and
+# OrderPreservingPartitioner.
+#
+partitioner: org.apache.cassandra.dht.Murmur3Partitioner
+
+# Directories where Cassandra should store data on disk.  Cassandra
+# will spread data evenly across them, subject to the granularity of
+# the configured compaction strategy.
+data_file_directories:
+    - ${driver.runDir}/data
+
+# commit log
+commitlog_directory: ${driver.runDir}/commitlog
+
+# policy for data disk failures:
+# stop_paranoid: shut down gossip and Thrift even for single-sstable errors.
+# stop: shut down gossip and Thrift, leaving the node effectively dead, but
+#       can still be inspected via JMX.
+# best_effort: stop using the failed disk and respond to requests based on
+#              remaining available sstables.  This means you WILL see obsolete
+#              data at CL.ONE!
+# ignore: ignore fatal errors and let requests fail, as in pre-1.2 Cassandra
+disk_failure_policy: stop
+
+# policy for commit disk failures:
+# stop: shut down gossip and Thrift, leaving the node effectively dead, but
+#       can still be inspected via JMX.
+# stop_commit: shutdown the commit log, letting writes collect but 
+#              continuing to service reads, as in pre-2.0.5 Cassandra
+# ignore: ignore fatal errors and let the batches fail
+commit_failure_policy: stop
+
+# Maximum size of the key cache in memory.
+#
+# Each key cache hit saves 1 seek and each row cache hit saves 2 seeks at the
+# minimum, sometimes more. The key cache is fairly tiny for the amount of
+# time it saves, so it's worthwhile to use it at large numbers.
+# The row cache saves even more time, but must contain the entire row,
+# so it is extremely space-intensive. It's best to only use the
+# row cache if you have hot rows or static rows.
+#
+# NOTE: if you reduce the size, you may not get you hottest keys loaded on startup.
+#
+# Default value is empty to make it "auto" (min(5% of Heap (in MB), 100MB)). Set to 0 to disable key cache.
+key_cache_size_in_mb:
+
+# Duration in seconds after which Cassandra should
+# save the key cache. Caches are saved to saved_caches_directory as
+# specified in this configuration file.
+#
+# Saved caches greatly improve cold-start speeds, and is relatively cheap in
+# terms of I/O for the key cache. Row cache saving is much more expensive and
+# has limited use.
+#
+# Default is 14400 or 4 hours.
+key_cache_save_period: 14400
+
+# Number of keys from the key cache to save
+# Disabled by default, meaning all keys are going to be saved
+# key_cache_keys_to_save: 100
+
+# Maximum size of the row cache in memory.
+# NOTE: if you reduce the size, you may not get you hottest keys loaded on startup.
+#
+# Default value is 0, to disable row caching.
+row_cache_size_in_mb: 0
+
+# Duration in seconds after which Cassandra should
+# safe the row cache. Caches are saved to saved_caches_directory as specified
+# in this configuration file.
+#
+# Saved caches greatly improve cold-start speeds, and is relatively cheap in
+# terms of I/O for the key cache. Row cache saving is much more expensive and
+# has limited use.
+#
+# Default is 0 to disable saving the row cache.
+row_cache_save_period: 0
+
+# Number of keys from the row cache to save
+# Disabled by default, meaning all keys are going to be saved
+# row_cache_keys_to_save: 100
+
+# The off-heap memory allocator.  Affects storage engine metadata as
+# well as caches.  Experiments show that JEMAlloc saves some memory
+# than the native GCC allocator (i.e., JEMalloc is more
+# fragmentation-resistant).
+# 
+# Supported values are: NativeAllocator, JEMallocAllocator
+#
+# If you intend to use JEMallocAllocator you have to install JEMalloc as library and
+# modify cassandra-env.sh as directed in the file.
+#
+# Defaults to NativeAllocator
+# memory_allocator: NativeAllocator
+
+# saved caches
+saved_caches_directory: ${driver.runDir}/saved_caches
+
+# commitlog_sync may be either "periodic" or "batch." 
+# When in batch mode, Cassandra won't ack writes until the commit log
+# has been fsynced to disk.  It will wait up to
+# commitlog_sync_batch_window_in_ms milliseconds for other writes, before
+# performing the sync.
+#
+# commitlog_sync: batch
+# commitlog_sync_batch_window_in_ms: 50
+#
+# the other option is "periodic" where writes may be acked immediately
+# and the CommitLog is simply synced every commitlog_sync_period_in_ms
+# milliseconds.  By default this allows 1024*(CPU cores) pending
+# entries on the commitlog queue.  If you are writing very large blobs,
+# you should reduce that; 16*cores works reasonably well for 1MB blobs.
+# It should be at least as large as the concurrent_writes setting.
+commitlog_sync: periodic
+commitlog_sync_period_in_ms: 10000
+# commitlog_periodic_queue_size:
+
+# The size of the individual commitlog file segments.  A commitlog
+# segment may be archived, deleted, or recycled once all the data
+# in it (potentially from each columnfamily in the system) has been
+# flushed to sstables.  
+#
+# The default size is 32, which is almost always fine, but if you are
+# archiving commitlog segments (see commitlog_archiving.properties),
+# then you probably want a finer granularity of archiving; 8 or 16 MB
+# is reasonable.
+commitlog_segment_size_in_mb: 32
+
+# any class that implements the SeedProvider interface and has a
+# constructor that takes a Map<String, String> of parameters will do.
+seed_provider:
+    # Addresses of hosts that are deemed contact points. 
+    # Cassandra nodes use this list of hosts to find each other and learn
+    # the topology of the ring.  You must change this if you are running
+    # multiple nodes!
+    - class_name: org.apache.cassandra.locator.SimpleSeedProvider
+      parameters:
+          # seeds is actually a comma-delimited list of addresses.
+          # Ex: "<ip1>,<ip2>,<ip3>"
+          - seeds: "${entity.seeds}"
+
+# For workloads with more data than can fit in memory, Cassandra's
+# bottleneck will be reads that need to fetch data from
+# disk. "concurrent_reads" should be set to (16 * number_of_drives) in
+# order to allow the operations to enqueue low enough in the stack
+# that the OS and drives can reorder them.
+#
+# On the other hand, since writes are almost never IO bound, the ideal
+# number of "concurrent_writes" is dependent on the number of cores in
+# your system; (8 * number_of_cores) is a good rule of thumb.
+concurrent_reads: 32
+concurrent_writes: 32
+
+# Total memory to use for sstable-reading buffers.  Defaults to
+# the smaller of 1/4 of heap or 512MB.
+# file_cache_size_in_mb: 512
+
+# Total memory to use for memtables.  Cassandra will flush the largest
+# memtable when this much memory is used.
+# If omitted, Cassandra will set it to 1/4 of the heap.
+# memtable_total_space_in_mb: 2048
+
+# Total space to use for commitlogs.  Since commitlog segments are
+# mmapped, and hence use up address space, the default size is 32
+# on 32-bit JVMs, and 1024 on 64-bit JVMs.
+#
+# If space gets above this value (it will round up to the next nearest
+# segment multiple), Cassandra will flush every dirty CF in the oldest
+# segment and remove it.  So a small total commitlog space will tend
+# to cause more flush activity on less-active columnfamilies.
+# commitlog_total_space_in_mb: 4096
+
+# This sets the amount of memtable flush writer threads.  These will
+# be blocked by disk io, and each one will hold a memtable in memory
+# while blocked. If you have a large heap and many data directories,
+# you can increase this value for better flush performance.
+# By default this will be set to the amount of data directories defined.
+#memtable_flush_writers: 1
+
+# the number of full memtables to allow pending flush, that is,
+# waiting for a writer thread.  At a minimum, this should be set to
+# the maximum number of secondary indexes created on a single CF.
+memtable_flush_queue_size: 4
+
+# Whether to, when doing sequential writing, fsync() at intervals in
+# order to force the operating system to flush the dirty
+# buffers. Enable this to avoid sudden dirty buffer flushing from
+# impacting read latencies. Almost always a good idea on SSDs; not
+# necessarily on platters.
+trickle_fsync: false
+trickle_fsync_interval_in_kb: 10240
+
+# TCP port, for commands and data
+storage_port: ${entity.gossipPort?c}
+
+# SSL port, for encrypted communication.  Unused unless enabled in
+# encryption_options
+ssl_storage_port: ${entity.sslGossipPort?c}
+
+# Address to bind to and tell other Cassandra nodes to connect to. You
+# _must_ change this if you want multiple nodes to be able to
+# communicate!
+# 
+# Leaving it blank leaves it up to InetAddress.getLocalHost(). This
+# will always do the Right Thing _if_ the node is properly configured
+# (hostname, name resolution, etc), and the Right Thing is to use the
+# address associated with the hostname (it might not be).
+#
+# Setting this to 0.0.0.0 is always wrong.
+listen_address: ${entity.listenAddress}
+
+# Address to broadcast to other Cassandra nodes
+# Leaving this blank will set it to the same value as listen_address
+broadcast_address: ${entity.broadcastAddress}
+
+# Internode authentication backend, implementing IInternodeAuthenticator;
+# used to allow/disallow connections from peer nodes.
+# internode_authenticator: org.apache.cassandra.auth.AllowAllInternodeAuthenticator
+
+# Whether to start the native transport server.
+# Please note that the address on which the native transport is bound is the
+# same as the rpc_address. The port however is different and specified below.
+start_native_transport: true
+# port for the CQL native transport to listen for clients on
+native_transport_port: ${entity.nativeTransportPort?c}
+# The maximum threads for handling requests when the native transport is used.
+# This is similar to rpc_max_threads though the default differs slightly (and
+# there is no native_transport_min_threads, idle threads will always be stopped
+# after 30 seconds).
+# native_transport_max_threads: 128
+#
+# The maximum size of allowed frame. Frame (requests) larger than this will
+# be rejected as invalid. The default is 256MB.
+# native_transport_max_frame_size_in_mb: 256
+
+# Whether to start the thrift rpc server.
+start_rpc: true
+
+# The address to bind the Thrift RPC service and native transport
+# server -- clients connect here.
+#
+# Leaving this blank has the same effect it does for ListenAddress,
+# (i.e. it will be based on the configured hostname of the node).
+#
+# Note that unlike ListenAddress above, it is allowed to specify 0.0.0.0
+# here if you want to listen on all interfaces, but that will break clients 
+# that rely on node auto-discovery.
+rpc_address: ${entity.rpcAddress}
+# port for Thrift to listen for clients on
+rpc_port: ${entity.thriftPort?c}
+
+# enable or disable keepalive on rpc connections
+rpc_keepalive: true
+
+# Cassandra provides two out-of-the-box options for the RPC Server:
+#
+# sync  -> One thread per thrift connection. For a very large number of clients, memory
+#          will be your limiting factor. On a 64 bit JVM, 180KB is the minimum stack size
+#          per thread, and that will correspond to your use of virtual memory (but physical memory
+#          may be limited depending on use of stack space).
+#
+# hsha  -> Stands for "half synchronous, half asynchronous." All thrift clients are handled
+#          asynchronously using a small number of threads that does not vary with the amount
+#          of thrift clients (and thus scales well to many clients). The rpc requests are still
+#          synchronous (one thread per active request).
+#
+# The default is sync because on Windows hsha is about 30% slower.  On Linux,
+# sync/hsha performance is about the same, with hsha of course using less memory.
+#
+# Alternatively,  can provide your own RPC server by providing the fully-qualified class name
+# of an o.a.c.t.TServerFactory that can create an instance of it.
+rpc_server_type: sync
+
+# Uncomment rpc_min|max_thread to set request pool size limits.
+#
+# Regardless of your choice of RPC server (see above), the number of maximum requests in the
+# RPC thread pool dictates how many concurrent requests are possible (but if you are using the sync
+# RPC server, it also dictates the number of clients that can be connected at all).
+#
+# The default is unlimited and thus provides no protection against clients overwhelming the server. You are
+# encouraged to set a maximum that makes sense for you in production, but do keep in mind that
+# rpc_max_threads represents the maximum number of client requests this server may execute concurrently.
+#
+# rpc_min_threads: 16
+# rpc_max_threads: 2048
+
+# uncomment to set socket buffer sizes on rpc connections
+# rpc_send_buff_size_in_bytes:
+# rpc_recv_buff_size_in_bytes:
+
+# Uncomment to set socket buffer size for internode communication
+# Note that when setting this, the buffer size is limited by net.core.wmem_max
+# and when not setting it it is defined by net.ipv4.tcp_wmem
+# See:
+# /proc/sys/net/core/wmem_max
+# /proc/sys/net/core/rmem_max
+# /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_wmem
+# /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_wmem
+# and: man tcp
+# internode_send_buff_size_in_bytes:
+# internode_recv_buff_size_in_bytes:
+
+# Frame size for thrift (maximum message length).
+thrift_framed_transport_size_in_mb: 15
+
+# Set to true to have Cassandra create a hard link to each sstable
+# flushed or streamed locally in a backups/ subdirectory of the
+# keyspace data.  Removing these links is the operator's
+# responsibility.
+incremental_backups: false
+
+# Whether or not to take a snapshot before each compaction.  Be
+# careful using this option, since Cassandra won't clean up the
+# snapshots for you.  Mostly useful if you're paranoid when there
+# is a data format change.
+snapshot_before_compaction: false
+
+# Whether or not a snapshot is taken of the data before keyspace truncation
+# or dropping of column families. The STRONGLY advised default of true 
+# should be used to provide data safety. If you set this flag to false, you will
+# lose data on truncation or drop.
+auto_snapshot: true
+
+# When executing a scan, within or across a partition, we need to keep the
+# tombstones seen in memory so we can return them to the coordinator, which
+# will use them to make sure other replicas also know about the deleted rows.
+# With workloads that generate a lot of tombstones, this can cause performance
+# problems and even exaust the server heap.
+# (http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/cassandra-anti-patterns-queues-and-queue-like-datasets)
+# Adjust the thresholds here if you understand the dangers and want to
+# scan more tombstones anyway.  These thresholds may also be adjusted at runtime
+# using the StorageService mbean.
+tombstone_warn_threshold: 1000
+tombstone_failure_threshold: 100000
+
+# Add column indexes to a row after its contents reach this size.
+# Increase if your column values are large, or if you have a very large
+# number of columns.  The competing causes are, Cassandra has to
+# deserialize this much of the row to read a single column, so you want
+# it to be small - at least if you do many partial-row reads - but all
+# the index data is read for each access, so you don't want to generate
+# that wastefully either.
+column_index_size_in_kb: 64
+
+
+# Log WARN on any batch size exceeding this value. 5kb per batch by default.
+# Caution should be taken on increasing the size of this threshold as it can lead to node instability.
+batch_size_warn_threshold_in_kb: 5
+
+# Size limit for rows being compacted in memory.  Larger rows will spill
+# over to disk and use a slower two-pass compaction process.  A message
+# will be logged specifying the row key.
+in_memory_compaction_limit_in_mb: 64
+
+# Number of simultaneous compactions to allow, NOT including
+# validation "compactions" for anti-entropy repair.  Simultaneous
+# compactions can help preserve read performance in a mixed read/write
+# workload, by mitigating the tendency of small sstables to accumulate
+# during a single long running compactions. The default is usually
+# fine and if you experience problems with compaction running too
+# slowly or too fast, you should look at
+# compaction_throughput_mb_per_sec first.
+#
+# concurrent_compactors defaults to the number of cores.
+# Uncomment to make compaction mono-threaded, the pre-0.8 default.
+#concurrent_compactors: 1
+
+# Multi-threaded compaction. When enabled, each compaction will use
+# up to one thread per core, plus one thread per sstable being merged.
+# This is usually only useful for SSD-based hardware: otherwise, 
+# your concern is usually to get compaction to do LESS i/o (see:
+# compaction_throughput_mb_per_sec), not more.
+multithreaded_compaction: false
+
+# Throttles compaction to the given total throughput across the entire
+# system. The faster you insert data, the faster you need to compact in
+# order to keep the sstable count down, but in general, setting this to
+# 16 to 32 times the rate you are inserting data is more than sufficient.
+# Setting this to 0 disables throttling. Note that this account for all types
+# of compaction, including validation compaction.
+compaction_throughput_mb_per_sec: 16
+
+# Track cached row keys during compaction, and re-cache their new
+# positions in the compacted sstable.  Disable if you use really large
+# key caches.
+compaction_preheat_key_cache: true
+
+# Throttles all outbound streaming file transfers on this node to the
+# given total throughput in Mbps. This is necessary because Cassandra does
+# mostly sequential IO when streaming data during bootstrap or repair, which
+# can lead to saturating the network connection and degrading rpc performance.
+# When unset, the default is 200 Mbps or 25 MB/s.
+# stream_throughput_outbound_megabits_per_sec: 200
+
+# How long the coordinator should wait for read operations to complete
+read_request_timeout_in_ms: 5000
+# How long the coordinator should wait for seq or index scans to complete
+range_request_timeout_in_ms: 10000
+# How long the coordinator should wait for writes to complete
+write_request_timeout_in_ms: 2000
+# How long a coordinator should continue to retry a CAS operation
+# that contends with other proposals for the same row
+cas_contention_timeout_in_ms: 1000
+# How long the coordinator should wait for truncates to complete
+# (This can be much longer, because unless auto_snapshot is disabled
+# we need to flush first so we can snapshot before removing the data.)
+truncate_request_timeout_in_ms: 60000
+# The default timeout for other, miscellaneous operations
+request_timeout_in_ms: 10000
+
+# Enable operation timeout information exchange between nodes to accurately
+# measure request timeouts.  If disabled, replicas will assume that requests
+# were forwarded to them instantly by the coordinator, which means that
+# under overload conditions we will waste that much extra time processing 
+# already-timed-out requests.
+#
+# Warning: before enabling this property make sure to ntp is installed
+# and the times are synchronized between the nodes.
+cross_node_timeout: false
+
+# Enable socket timeout for streaming operation.
+# When a timeout occurs during streaming, streaming is retried from the start
+# of the current file. This _can_ involve re-streaming an important amount of
+# data, so you should avoid setting the value too low.
+# Default value is 0, which never timeout streams.
+# streaming_socket_timeout_in_ms: 0
+
+# phi value that must be reached for a host to be marked down.
+# most users should never need to adjust this.
+# phi_convict_threshold: 8
+
+# endpoint_snitch -- Set this to a class that implements
+# IEndpointSnitch.  The snitch has two functions:
+# - it teaches Cassandra enough about your network topology to route
+#   requests efficiently
+# - it allows Cassandra to spread replicas around your cluster to avoid
+#   correlated failures. It does this by grouping machines into
+#   "datacenters" and "racks."  Cassandra will do its best not to have
+#   more than one replica on the same "rack" (which may not actually
+#   be a physical location)
+#
+# IF YOU CHANGE THE SNITCH AFTER DATA IS INSERTED INTO THE CLUSTER,
+# YOU MUST RUN A FULL REPAIR, SINCE THE SNITCH AFFECTS WHERE REPLICAS
+# ARE PLACED.
+#
+# Out of the box, Cassandra provides
+#  - SimpleSnitch:
+#    Treats Strategy order as proximity. This can improve cache
+#    locality when disabling read repair.  Only appropriate for
+#    single-datacenter deployments.
+#  - GossipingPropertyFileSnitch
+#    This should be your go-to snitch for production use.  The rack
+#    and datacenter for the local node are defined in
+#    cassandra-rackdc.properties and propagated to other nodes via
+#    gossip.  If cassandra-topology.properties exists, it is used as a
+#    fallback, allowing migration from the PropertyFileSnitch.
+#  - PropertyFileSnitch:
+#    Proximity is determined by rack and data center, which are
+#    explicitly configured in cassandra-topology.properties.
+#  - Ec2Snitch:
+#    Appropriate for EC2 deployments in a single Region. Loads Region
+#    and Availability Zone information from the EC2 API. The Region is
+#    treated as the datacenter, and the Availability Zone as the rack.
+#    Only private IPs are used, so this will not work across multiple
+#    Regions.
+#  - Ec2MultiRegionSnitch:
+#    Uses public IPs as broadcast_address to allow cross-region
+#    connectivity.  (Thus, you should set seed addresses to the public
+#    IP as well.) You will need to open the storage_port or
+#    ssl_storage_port on the public IP firewall.  (For intra-Region
+#    traffic, Cassandra will switch to the private IP after
+#    establishing a connection.)
+#  - RackInferringSnitch:
+#    Proximity is determined by rack and data center, which are
+#    assumed to correspond to the 3rd and 2nd octet of each node's IP
+#    address, respectively.  Unless this happens to match your
+#    deployment conventions, this is best used as an example of
+#    writing a custom Snitch class and is provided in that spirit.
+#
+# You can use a custom Snitch by setting this to the full class name
+# of the snitch, which will be assumed to be on your classpath.
+endpoint_snitch: ${driver.endpointSnitchName}
+
+# controls how often to perform the more expensive part of host score
+# calculation
+dynamic_snitch_update_interval_in_ms: 100 
+# controls how often to reset all host scores, allowing a bad host to
+# possibly recover
+dynamic_snitch_reset_interval_in_ms: 600000
+# if set greater than zero and read_repair_chance is < 1.0, this will allow
+# 'pinning' of replicas to hosts in order to increase cache capacity.
+# The badness threshold will control how much worse the pinned host has to be
+# before the dynamic snitch will prefer other replicas over it.  This is
+# expressed as a double which represents a percentage.  Thus, a value of
+# 0.2 means Cassandra would continue to prefer the static snitch values
+# until the pinned host was 20% worse than the fastest.
+dynamic_snitch_badness_threshold: 0.1
+
+# request_scheduler -- Set this to a class that implements
+# RequestScheduler, which will schedule incoming client requests
+# according to the specific policy. This is useful for multi-tenancy
+# with a single Cassandra cluster.
+# NOTE: This is specifically for requests from the client and does
+# not affect inter node communication.
+# org.apache.cassandra.scheduler.NoScheduler - No scheduling takes place
+# org.apache.cassandra.scheduler.RoundRobinScheduler - Round robin of
+# client requests to a node with a separate queue for each
+# request_scheduler_id. The scheduler is further customized by
+# request_scheduler_options as described below.
+request_scheduler: org.apache.cassandra.scheduler.NoScheduler
+
+# Scheduler Options vary based on the type of scheduler
+# NoScheduler - Has no options
+# RoundRobin
+#  - throttle_limit -- The throttle_limit is the number of in-flight
+#                      requests per client.  Requests beyond 
+#                      that limit are queued up until
+#                      running requests can complete.
+#                      The value of 80 here is twice the number of
+#                      concurrent_reads + concurrent_writes.
+#  - default_weight -- default_weight is optional and allows for
+#                      overriding the default which is 1.
+#  - weights -- Weights are optional and will default to 1 or the
+#               overridden default_weight. The weight translates into how
+#               many requests are handled during each turn of the
+#               RoundRobin, based on the scheduler id.
+#
+# request_scheduler_options:
+#    throttle_limit: 80
+#    default_weight: 5
+#    weights:
+#      Keyspace1: 1
+#      Keyspace2: 5
+
+# request_scheduler_id -- An identifier based on which to perform
+# the request scheduling. Currently the only valid option is keyspace.
+# request_scheduler_id: keyspace
+
+# Enable or disable inter-node encryption
+# Default settings are TLS v1, RSA 1024-bit keys (it is imperative that
+# users generate their own keys) TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA as the cipher
+# suite for authentication, key exchange and encryption of the actual data transfers.
+# Use the DHE/ECDHE ciphers if running in FIPS 140 compliant mode.
+# NOTE: No custom encryption options are enabled at the moment
+# The available internode options are : all, none, dc, rack
+#
+# If set to dc cassandra will encrypt the traffic between the DCs
+# If set to rack cassandra will encrypt the traffic between the racks
+#
+# The passwords used in these options must match the passwords used when generating
+# the keystore and truststore.  For instructions on generating these files, see:
+# http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/guides/security/jsse/JSSERefGuide.html#CreateKeystore
+#
+server_encryption_options:
+    internode_encryption: none
+    keystore: conf/.keystore
+    keystore_password: cassandra
+    truststore: conf/.truststore
+    truststore_password: cassandra
+    # More advanced defaults below:
+    # protocol: TLS
+    # algorithm: SunX509
+    # store_type: JKS
+    # cipher_suites: [TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA,TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA,TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA]
+    # require_client_auth: false
+
+# enable or disable client/server encryption.
+client_encryption_options:
+    enabled: false
+    keystore: conf/.keystore
+    keystore_password: cassandra
+    # require_client_auth: false
+    # Set trustore and truststore_password if require_client_auth is true
+    # truststore: conf/.truststore
+    # truststore_password: cassandra
+    # More advanced defaults below:
+    # protocol: TLS
+    # algorithm: SunX509
+    # store_type: JKS
+    # cipher_suites: [TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA,TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA,TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA]
+
+# internode_compression controls whether traffic between nodes is
+# compressed.
+# can be:  all  - all traffic is compressed
+#          dc   - traffic between different datacenters is compressed
+#          none - nothing is compressed.
+internode_compression: all
+
+# Enable or disable tcp_nodelay for inter-dc communication.
+# Disabling it will result in larger (but fewer) network packets being sent,
+# reducing overhead from the TCP protocol itself, at the cost of increasing
+# latency if you block for cross-datacenter responses.
+inter_dc_tcp_nodelay: false
+
+# Enable or disable kernel page cache preheating from contents of the key cache after compaction.
+# When enabled it would preheat only first "page" (4KB) of each row to optimize
+# for sequential access. Note: This could be harmful for fat rows, see CASSANDRA-4937
+# for further details on that topic.
+preheat_kernel_page_cache: false

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-#
-# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
-# or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
-# distributed with this work for additional information
-# regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
-# to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
-# "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
-# with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-#
-#  http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-#
-# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
-# software distributed under the License is distributed on an
-# "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
-# KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
-# specific language governing permissions and limitations
-# under the License.
-#
-# Cassandra storage config YAML 
-
-# NOTE:
-#   See http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/StorageConfiguration for
-#   full explanations of configuration directives
-# /NOTE
-
-# The name of the cluster. This is mainly used to prevent machines in
-# one logical cluster from joining another.
-cluster_name: '${entity.clusterName}'
-
-# This defines the number of tokens randomly assigned to this node on the ring
-# The more tokens, relative to other nodes, the larger the proportion of data
-# that this node will store. You probably want all nodes to have the same number
-# of tokens assuming they have equal hardware capability.
-#
-# If you leave this unspecified, Cassandra will use the default of 1 token for legacy compatibility,
-# and will use the initial_token as described below.
-#
-# Specifying initial_token will override this setting.
-#
-# If you already have a cluster with 1 token per node, and wish to migrate to 
-# multiple tokens per node, see http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/Operations
-# num_tokens: 256
-
-# If you haven't specified num_tokens, or have set it to the default of 1 then
-# you should always specify InitialToken when setting up a production
-# cluster for the first time, and often when adding capacity later.
-# The principle is that each node should be given an equal slice of
-# the token ring; see http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/Operations
-# for more details.
-#
-# If blank, Cassandra will request a token bisecting the range of
-# the heaviest-loaded existing node.  If there is no load information
-# available, such as is the case with a new cluster, it will pick
-# a random token, which will lead to hot spots.
-initial_token: ${entity.tokenAsString}
-
-# See http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/HintedHandoff
-hinted_handoff_enabled: true
-# this defines the maximum amount of time a dead host will have hints
-# generated.  After it has been dead this long, hints will be dropped.
-max_hint_window_in_ms: 10800000 # 3 hours
-# throttle in KB's per second, per delivery thread
-hinted_handoff_throttle_in_kb: 1024
-# Number of threads with which to deliver hints;
-# Consider increasing this number when you have multi-dc deployments, since
-# cross-dc handoff tends to be slower
-max_hints_delivery_threads: 2
-
-# The following setting populates the page cache on memtable flush and compaction
-# WARNING: Enable this setting only when the whole node's data fits in memory.
-# Defaults to: false
-# populate_io_cache_on_flush: false
-
-# authentication backend, implementing IAuthenticator; used to identify users
-authenticator: org.apache.cassandra.auth.AllowAllAuthenticator
-
-# authorization backend, implementing IAuthorizer; used to limit access/provide permissions
-authorizer: org.apache.cassandra.auth.AllowAllAuthorizer
-
-# The partitioner is responsible for distributing rows (by key) across
-# nodes in the cluster.  Any IPartitioner may be used, including your
-# own as long as it is on the classpath.  Out of the box, Cassandra
-# provides org.apache.cassandra.dht.{Murmur3Partitioner, RandomPartitioner
-# ByteOrderedPartitioner, OrderPreservingPartitioner (deprecated)}.
-# 
-# - RandomPartitioner distributes rows across the cluster evenly by md5.
-#   This is the default prior to 1.2 and is retained for compatibility.
-# - Murmur3Partitioner is similar to RandomPartioner but uses Murmur3_128
-#   Hash Function instead of md5.  When in doubt, this is the best option.
-# - ByteOrderedPartitioner orders rows lexically by key bytes.  BOP allows
-#   scanning rows in key order, but the ordering can generate hot spots
-#   for sequential insertion workloads.
-# - OrderPreservingPartitioner is an obsolete form of BOP, that stores
-# - keys in a less-efficient format and only works with keys that are
-#   UTF8-encoded Strings.
-# - CollatingOPP colates according to EN,US rules rather than lexical byte
-#   ordering.  Use this as an example if you need custom collation.
-#
-# See http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/Operations for more on
-# partitioners and token selection.
-partitioner: org.apache.cassandra.dht.Murmur3Partitioner
-
-# directories where Cassandra should store data on disk.
-data_file_directories:
-    - ${driver.runDir}/data
-
-# commit log
-commitlog_directory: ${driver.runDir}/commitlog
-
-# policy for data disk failures:
-# stop: shut down gossip and Thrift, leaving the node effectively dead, but
-#       still inspectable via JMX.
-# best_effort: stop using the failed disk and respond to requests based on
-#              remaining available sstables.  This means you WILL see obsolete
-#              data at CL.ONE!
-# ignore: ignore fatal errors and let requests fail, as in pre-1.2 Cassandra
-disk_failure_policy: stop
-
-# Maximum size of the key cache in memory.
-#
-# Each key cache hit saves 1 seek and each row cache hit saves 2 seeks at the
-# minimum, sometimes more. The key cache is fairly tiny for the amount of
-# time it saves, so it's worthwhile to use it at large numbers.
-# The row cache saves even more time, but must store the whole values of
-# its rows, so it is extremely space-intensive. It's best to only use the
-# row cache if you have hot rows or static rows.
-#
-# NOTE: if you reduce the size, you may not get you hottest keys loaded on startup.
-#
-# Default value is empty to make it "auto" (min(5% of Heap (in MB), 100MB)). Set to 0 to disable key cache.
-key_cache_size_in_mb:
-
-# Duration in seconds after which Cassandra should
-# safe the keys cache. Caches are saved to saved_caches_directory as
-# specified in this configuration file.
-#
-# Saved caches greatly improve cold-start speeds, and is relatively cheap in
-# terms of I/O for the key cache. Row cache saving is much more expensive and
-# has limited use.
-#
-# Default is 14400 or 4 hours.
-key_cache_save_period: 14400
-
-# Number of keys from the key cache to save
-# Disabled by default, meaning all keys are going to be saved
-# key_cache_keys_to_save: 100
-
-# Maximum size of the row cache in memory.
-# NOTE: if you reduce the size, you may not get you hottest keys loaded on startup.
-#
-# Default value is 0, to disable row caching.
-row_cache_size_in_mb: 0
-
-# Duration in seconds after which Cassandra should
-# safe the row cache. Caches are saved to saved_caches_directory as specified
-# in this configuration file.
-#
-# Saved caches greatly improve cold-start speeds, and is relatively cheap in
-# terms of I/O for the key cache. Row cache saving is much more expensive and
-# has limited use.
-#
-# Default is 0 to disable saving the row cache.
-row_cache_save_period: 0
-
-# Number of keys from the row cache to save
-# Disabled by default, meaning all keys are going to be saved
-# row_cache_keys_to_save: 100
-
-# The provider for the row cache to use.
-#
-# Supported values are: ConcurrentLinkedHashCacheProvider, SerializingCacheProvider
-#
-# SerializingCacheProvider serialises the contents of the row and stores
-# it in native memory, i.e., off the JVM Heap. Serialized rows take
-# significantly less memory than "live" rows in the JVM, so you can cache
-# more rows in a given memory footprint.  And storing the cache off-heap
-# means you can use smaller heap sizes, reducing the impact of GC pauses.
-#
-# It is also valid to specify the fully-qualified class name to a class
-# that implements org.apache.cassandra.cache.IRowCacheProvider.
-#
-# Defaults to SerializingCacheProvider
-row_cache_provider: SerializingCacheProvider
-
-# saved caches
-saved_caches_directory: ${driver.runDir}/saved_caches
-
-# commitlog_sync may be either "periodic" or "batch." 
-# When in batch mode, Cassandra won't ack writes until the commit log
-# has been fsynced to disk.  It will wait up to
-# commitlog_sync_batch_window_in_ms milliseconds for other writes, before
-# performing the sync.
-#
-# commitlog_sync: batch
-# commitlog_sync_batch_window_in_ms: 50
-#
-# the other option is "periodic" where writes may be acked immediately
-# and the CommitLog is simply synced every commitlog_sync_period_in_ms
-# milliseconds.
-commitlog_sync: periodic
-commitlog_sync_period_in_ms: 10000
-
-# The size of the individual commitlog file segments.  A commitlog
-# segment may be archived, deleted, or recycled once all the data
-# in it (potentally from each columnfamily in the system) has been 
-# flushed to sstables.  
-#
-# The default size is 32, which is almost always fine, but if you are
-# archiving commitlog segments (see commitlog_archiving.properties),
-# then you probably want a finer granularity of archiving; 8 or 16 MB
-# is reasonable.
-commitlog_segment_size_in_mb: 32
-
-# any class that implements the SeedProvider interface and has a
-# constructor that takes a Map<String, String> of parameters will do.
-seed_provider:
-    # Addresses of hosts that are deemed contact points. 
-    # Cassandra nodes use this list of hosts to find each other and learn
-    # the topology of the ring.  You must change this if you are running
-    # multiple nodes!
-    - class_name: org.apache.cassandra.locator.SimpleSeedProvider
-      parameters:
-          # seeds is actually a comma-delimited list of addresses.
-          # Ex: "<ip1>,<ip2>,<ip3>"
-          - seeds: "${entity.seeds}"
-
-# emergency pressure valve: each time heap usage after a full (CMS)
-# garbage collection is above this fraction of the max, Cassandra will
-# flush the largest memtables.  
-#
-# Set to 1.0 to disable.  Setting this lower than
-# CMSInitiatingOccupancyFraction is not likely to be useful.
-#
-# RELYING ON THIS AS YOUR PRIMARY TUNING MECHANISM WILL WORK POORLY:
-# it is most effective under light to moderate load, or read-heavy
-# workloads; under truly massive write load, it will often be too
-# little, too late.
-flush_largest_memtables_at: 0.75
-
-# emergency pressure valve #2: the first time heap usage after a full
-# (CMS) garbage collection is above this fraction of the max,
-# Cassandra will reduce cache maximum _capacity_ to the given fraction
-# of the current _size_.  Should usually be set substantially above
-# flush_largest_memtables_at, since that will have less long-term
-# impact on the system.  
-# 
-# Set to 1.0 to disable.  Setting this lower than
-# CMSInitiatingOccupancyFraction is not likely to be useful.
-reduce_cache_sizes_at: 0.85
-reduce_cache_capacity_to: 0.6
-
-# For workloads with more data than can fit in memory, Cassandra's
-# bottleneck will be reads that need to fetch data from
-# disk. "concurrent_reads" should be set to (16 * number_of_drives) in
-# order to allow the operations to enqueue low enough in the stack
-# that the OS and drives can reorder them.
-#
-# On the other hand, since writes are almost never IO bound, the ideal
-# number of "concurrent_writes" is dependent on the number of cores in
-# your system; (8 * number_of_cores) is a good rule of thumb.
-concurrent_reads: 32
-concurrent_writes: 32
-
-# Total memory to use for memtables.  Cassandra will flush the largest
-# memtable when this much memory is used.
-# If omitted, Cassandra will set it to 1/3 of the heap.
-# memtable_total_space_in_mb: 2048
-
-# Total space to use for commitlogs.  Since commitlog segments are
-# mmapped, and hence use up address space, the default size is 32
-# on 32-bit JVMs, and 1024 on 64-bit JVMs.
-#
-# If space gets above this value (it will round up to the next nearest
-# segment multiple), Cassandra will flush every dirty CF in the oldest
-# segment and remove it.  So a small total commitlog space will tend
-# to cause more flush activity on less-active columnfamilies.
-# commitlog_total_space_in_mb: 4096
-
-# This sets the amount of memtable flush writer threads.  These will
-# be blocked by disk io, and each one will hold a memtable in memory
-# while blocked. If you have a large heap and many data directories,
-# you can increase this value for better flush performance.
-# By default this will be set to the amount of data directories defined.
-#memtable_flush_writers: 1
-
-# the number of full memtables to allow pending flush, that is,
-# waiting for a writer thread.  At a minimum, this should be set to
-# the maximum number of secondary indexes created on a single CF.
-memtable_flush_queue_size: 4
-
-# Whether to, when doing sequential writing, fsync() at intervals in
-# order to force the operating system to flush the dirty
-# buffers. Enable this to avoid sudden dirty buffer flushing from
-# impacting read latencies. Almost always a good idea on SSD:s; not
-# necessarily on platters.
-trickle_fsync: false
-trickle_fsync_interval_in_kb: 10240
-
-# TCP port, for commands and data
-storage_port: ${entity.gossipPort?c}
-
-# SSL port, for encrypted communication.  Unused unless enabled in
-# encryption_options
-ssl_storage_port: ${entity.sslGossipPort?c}
-
-# Address to bind to and tell other Cassandra nodes to connect to. You
-# _must_ change this if you want multiple nodes to be able to
-# communicate!
-# 
-# Leaving it blank leaves it up to InetAddress.getLocalHost(). This
-# will always do the Right Thing *if* the node is properly configured
-# (hostname, name resolution, etc), and the Right Thing is to use the
-# address associated with the hostname (it might not be).
-#
-# Setting this to 0.0.0.0 is always wrong.
-listen_address: ${entity.listenAddress}
-
-# Address to broadcast to other Cassandra nodes
-# Leaving this blank will set it to the same value as listen_address
-broadcast_address: ${entity.broadcastAddress}
-
-# Whether to start the native transport server.
-# Currently, only the thrift server is started by default because the native
-# transport is considered beta.
-# Please note that the address on which the native transport is bound is the
-# same as the rpc_address. The port however is different and specified below.
-start_native_transport: true
-# port for the CQL native transport to listen for clients on
-native_transport_port: ${entity.nativeTransportPort?c}
-# The minimum and maximum threads for handling requests when the native
-# transport is used. The meaning is those is similar to the one of
-# rpc_min_threads and rpc_max_threads, though the default differ slightly and
-# are the ones below:
-#native_transport_min_threads: 16
-#native_transport_max_threads: 128
-
-
-# Whether to start the thrift rpc server.
-start_rpc: true
-# The address to bind the Thrift RPC service to -- clients connect
-# here. Unlike ListenAddress above, you *can* specify 0.0.0.0 here if
-# you want Thrift to listen on all interfaces.
-# 
-# Leaving this blank has the same effect it does for ListenAddress,
-# (i.e. it will be based on the configured hostname of the node).
-rpc_address: ${entity.rpcAddress}
-# port for Thrift to listen for clients on
-rpc_port: ${entity.thriftPort?c}
-
-# enable or disable keepalive on rpc connections
-rpc_keepalive: true
-
-# Cassandra provides three out-of-the-box options for the RPC Server:
-#
-# sync  -> One thread per thrift connection. For a very large number of clients, memory
-#          will be your limiting factor. On a 64 bit JVM, 128KB is the minimum stack size
-#          per thread, and that will correspond to your use of virtual memory (but physical memory
-#          may be limited depending on use of stack space).
-#
-# hsha  -> Stands for "half synchronous, half asynchronous." All thrift clients are handled
-#          asynchronously using a small number of threads that does not vary with the amount
-#          of thrift clients (and thus scales well to many clients). The rpc requests are still
-#          synchronous (one thread per active request).
-#
-# The default is sync because on Windows hsha is about 30% slower.  On Linux,
-# sync/hsha performance is about the same, with hsha of course using less memory.
-#
-# Alternatively,  can provide your own RPC server by providing the fully-qualified class name
-# of an o.a.c.t.TServerFactory that can create an instance of it.
-rpc_server_type: sync
-
-# Uncomment rpc_min|max_thread to set request pool size limits.
-#
-# Regardless of your choice of RPC server (see above), the number of maximum requests in the
-# RPC thread pool dictates how many concurrent requests are possible (but if you are using the sync
-# RPC server, it also dictates the number of clients that can be connected at all).
-#
-# The default is unlimited and thus provide no protection against clients overwhelming the server. You are
-# encouraged to set a maximum that makes sense for you in production, but do keep in mind that
-# rpc_max_threads represents the maximum number of client requests this server may execute concurrently.
-#
-# rpc_min_threads: 16
-# rpc_max_threads: 2048
-
-# uncomment to set socket buffer sizes on rpc connections
-# rpc_send_buff_size_in_bytes:
-# rpc_recv_buff_size_in_bytes:
-
-# Frame size for thrift (maximum field length).
-thrift_framed_transport_size_in_mb: 15
-
-# The max length of a thrift message, including all fields and
-# internal thrift overhead.
-thrift_max_message_length_in_mb: 16
-
-# Set to true to have Cassandra create a hard link to each sstable
-# flushed or streamed locally in a backups/ subdirectory of the
-# Keyspace data.  Removing these links is the operator's
-# responsibility.
-incremental_backups: false
-
-# Whether or not to take a snapshot before each compaction.  Be
-# careful using this option, since Cassandra won't clean up the
-# snapshots for you.  Mostly useful if you're paranoid when there
-# is a data format change.
-snapshot_before_compaction: false
-
-# Whether or not a snapshot is taken of the data before keyspace truncation
-# or dropping of column families. The STRONGLY advised default of true 
-# should be used to provide data safety. If you set this flag to false, you will
-# lose data on truncation or drop.
-auto_snapshot: true
-
-# Add column indexes to a row after its contents reach this size.
-# Increase if your column values are large, or if you have a very large
-# number of columns.  The competing causes are, Cassandra has to
-# deserialize this much of the row to read a single column, so you want
-# it to be small - at least if you do many partial-row reads - but all
-# the index data is read for each access, so you don't want to generate
-# that wastefully either.
-column_index_size_in_kb: 64
-
-# Size limit for rows being compacted in memory.  Larger rows will spill
-# over to disk and use a slower two-pass compaction process.  A message
-# will be logged specifying the row key.
-in_memory_compaction_limit_in_mb: 64
-
-# Number of simultaneous compactions to allow, NOT including
-# validation "compactions" for anti-entropy repair.  Simultaneous
-# compactions can help preserve read performance in a mixed read/write
-# workload, by mitigating the tendency of small sstables to accumulate
-# during a single long running compactions. The default is usually
-# fine and if you experience problems with compaction running too
-# slowly or too fast, you should look at
-# compaction_throughput_mb_per_sec first.
-#
-# concurrent_compactors defaults to the number of cores.
-# Uncomment to make compaction mono-threaded, the pre-0.8 default.
-#concurrent_compactors: 1
-
-# Multi-threaded compaction. When enabled, each compaction will use
-# up to one thread per core, plus one thread per sstable being merged.
-# This is usually only useful for SSD-based hardware: otherwise, 
-# your concern is usually to get compaction to do LESS i/o (see:
-# compaction_throughput_mb_per_sec), not more.
-multithreaded_compaction: false
-
-# Throttles compaction to the given total throughput across the entire
-# system. The faster you insert data, the faster you need to compact in
-# order to keep the sstable count down, but in general, setting this to
-# 16 to 32 times the rate you are inserting data is more than sufficient.
-# Setting this to 0 disables throttling. Note that this account for all types
-# of compaction, including validation compaction.
-compaction_throughput_mb_per_sec: 16
-
-# Track cached row keys during compaction, and re-cache their new
-# positions in the compacted sstable.  Disable if you use really large
-# key caches.
-compaction_preheat_key_cache: true
-
-# Throttles all outbound streaming file transfers on this node to the
-# given total throughput in Mbps. This is necessary because Cassandra does
-# mostly sequential IO when streaming data during bootstrap or repair, which
-# can lead to saturating the network connection and degrading rpc performance.
-# When unset, the default is 400 Mbps or 50 MB/s.
-# stream_throughput_outbound_megabits_per_sec: 400
-
-# How long the coordinator should wait for read operations to complete
-read_request_timeout_in_ms: 10000
-# How long the coordinator should wait for seq or index scans to complete
-range_request_timeout_in_ms: 10000
-# How long the coordinator should wait for writes to complete
-write_request_timeout_in_ms: 10000
-# How long the coordinator should wait for truncates to complete
-# (This can be much longer, because unless auto_snapshot is disabled
-# we need to flush first so we can snapshot before removing the data.)
-truncate_request_timeout_in_ms: 60000
-# The default timeout for other, miscellaneous operations
-request_timeout_in_ms: 10000
-
-# Enable operation timeout information exchange between nodes to accurately
-# measure request timeouts, If disabled cassandra will assuming the request
-# was forwarded to the replica instantly by the coordinator
-#
-# Warning: before enabling this property make sure to ntp is installed
-# and the times are synchronized between the nodes.
-cross_node_timeout: false
-
-# Enable socket timeout for streaming operation.
-# When a timeout occurs during streaming, streaming is retried from the start
-# of the current file. This *can* involve re-streaming an important amount of
-# data, so you should avoid setting the value too low.
-# Default value is 0, which never timeout streams.
-# streaming_socket_timeout_in_ms: 0
-
-# phi value that must be reached for a host to be marked down.
-# most users should never need to adjust this.
-# phi_convict_threshold: 8
-
-# endpoint_snitch -- Set this to a class that implements
-# IEndpointSnitch.  The snitch has two functions:
-# - it teaches Cassandra enough about your network topology to route
-#   requests efficiently
-# - it allows Cassandra to spread replicas around your cluster to avoid
-#   correlated failures. It does this by grouping machines into
-#   "datacenters" and "racks."  Cassandra will do its best not to have
-#   more than one replica on the same "rack" (which may not actually
-#   be a physical location)
-#
-# IF YOU CHANGE THE SNITCH AFTER DATA IS INSERTED INTO THE CLUSTER,
-# YOU MUST RUN A FULL REPAIR, SINCE THE SNITCH AFFECTS WHERE REPLICAS
-# ARE PLACED.
-#
-# Out of the box, Cassandra provides
-#  - SimpleSnitch:
-#    Treats Strategy order as proximity. This improves cache locality
-#    when disabling read repair, which can further improve throughput.
-#    Only appropriate for single-datacenter deployments.
-#  - PropertyFileSnitch:
-#    Proximity is determined by rack and data center, which are
-#    explicitly configured in cassandra-topology.properties.
-#  - GossipingPropertyFileSnitch
-#    The rack and datacenter for the local node are defined in
-#    cassandra-rackdc.properties and propagated to other nodes via gossip.  If
-#    cassandra-topology.properties exists, it is used as a fallback, allowing
-#    migration from the PropertyFileSnitch.
-#  - RackInferringSnitch:
-#    Proximity is determined by rack and data center, which are
-#    assumed to correspond to the 3rd and 2nd octet of each node's
-#    IP address, respectively.  Unless this happens to match your
-#    deployment conventions (as it did Facebook's), this is best used
-#    as an example of writing a custom Snitch class.
-#  - Ec2Snitch:
-#    Appropriate for EC2 deployments in a single Region.  Loads Region
-#    and Availability Zone information from the EC2 API. The Region is
-#    treated as the Datacenter, and the Availability Zone as the rack.
-#    Only private IPs are used, so this will not work across multiple
-#    Regions.
-#  - Ec2MultiRegionSnitch:
-#    Uses public IPs as broadcast_address to allow cross-region
-#    connectivity.  (Thus, you should set seed addresses to the public
-#    IP as well.) You will need to open the storage_port or
-#    ssl_storage_port on the public IP firewall.  (For intra-Region
-#    traffic, Cassandra will switch to the private IP after
-#    establishing a connection.)
-#
-# You can use a custom Snitch by setting this to the full class name
-# of the snitch, which will be assumed to be on your classpath.
-endpoint_snitch: ${driver.endpointSnitchName}
-
-# controls how often to perform the more expensive part of host score
-# calculation
-dynamic_snitch_update_interval_in_ms: 100 
-# controls how often to reset all host scores, allowing a bad host to
-# possibly recover
-dynamic_snitch_reset_interval_in_ms: 600000
-# if set greater than zero and read_repair_chance is < 1.0, this will allow
-# 'pinning' of replicas to hosts in order to increase cache capacity.
-# The badness threshold will control how much worse the pinned host has to be
-# before the dynamic snitch will prefer other replicas over it.  This is
-# expressed as a double which represents a percentage.  Thus, a value of
-# 0.2 means Cassandra would continue to prefer the static snitch values
-# until the pinned host was 20% worse than the fastest.
-dynamic_snitch_badness_threshold: 0.1
-
-# request_scheduler -- Set this to a class that implements
-# RequestScheduler, which will schedule incoming client requests
-# according to the specific policy. This is useful for multi-tenancy
-# with a single Cassandra cluster.
-# NOTE: This is specifically for requests from the client and does
-# not affect inter node communication.
-# org.apache.cassandra.scheduler.NoScheduler - No scheduling takes place
-# org.apache.cassandra.scheduler.RoundRobinScheduler - Round robin of
-# client requests to a node with a separate queue for each
-# request_scheduler_id. The scheduler is further customized by
-# request_scheduler_options as described below.
-request_scheduler: org.apache.cassandra.scheduler.NoScheduler
-
-# Scheduler Options vary based on the type of scheduler
-# NoScheduler - Has no options
-# RoundRobin
-#  - throttle_limit -- The throttle_limit is the number of in-flight
-#                      requests per client.  Requests beyond 
-#                      that limit are queued up until
-#                      running requests can complete.
-#                      The value of 80 here is twice the number of
-#                      concurrent_reads + concurrent_writes.
-#  - default_weight -- default_weight is optional and allows for
-#                      overriding the default which is 1.
-#  - weights -- Weights are optional and will default to 1 or the
-#               overridden default_weight. The weight translates into how
-#               many requests are handled during each turn of the
-#               RoundRobin, based on the scheduler id.
-#
-# request_scheduler_options:
-#    throttle_limit: 80
-#    default_weight: 5
-#    weights:
-#      Keyspace1: 1
-#      Keyspace2: 5
-
-# request_scheduler_id -- An identifer based on which to perform
-# the request scheduling. Currently the only valid option is keyspace.
-# request_scheduler_id: keyspace
-
-# index_interval controls the sampling of entries from the primrary
-# row index in terms of space versus time.  The larger the interval,
-# the smaller and less effective the sampling will be.  In technicial
-# terms, the interval coresponds to the number of index entries that
-# are skipped between taking each sample.  All the sampled entries
-# must fit in memory.  Generally, a value between 128 and 512 here
-# coupled with a large key cache size on CFs results in the best trade
-# offs.  This value is not often changed, however if you have many
-# very small rows (many to an OS page), then increasing this will
-# often lower memory usage without a impact on performance.
-index_interval: 128
-
-# Enable or disable inter-node encryption
-# Default settings are TLS v1, RSA 1024-bit keys (it is imperative that
-# users generate their own keys) TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA as the cipher
-# suite for authentication, key exchange and encryption of the actual data transfers.
-# NOTE: No custom encryption options are enabled at the moment
-# The available internode options are : all, none, dc, rack
-#
-# If set to dc cassandra will encrypt the traffic between the DCs
-# If set to rack cassandra will encrypt the traffic between the racks
-#
-# The passwords used in these options must match the passwords used when generating
-# the keystore and truststore.  For instructions on generating these files, see:
-# http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/guides/security/jsse/JSSERefGuide.html#CreateKeystore
-#
-server_encryption_options:
-    internode_encryption: none
-    keystore: conf/.keystore
-    keystore_password: cassandra
-    truststore: conf/.truststore
-    truststore_password: cassandra
-    # More advanced defaults below:
-    # protocol: TLS
-    # algorithm: SunX509
-    # store_type: JKS
-    # cipher_suites: [TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA]
-
-# enable or disable client/server encryption.
-client_encryption_options:
-    enabled: false
-    keystore: conf/.keystore
-    keystore_password: cassandra
-    # More advanced defaults below:
-    # protocol: TLS
-    # algorithm: SunX509
-    # store_type: JKS
-    # cipher_suites: [TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA]
-
-# internode_compression controls whether traffic between nodes is
-# compressed.
-# can be:  all  - all traffic is compressed
-#          dc   - traffic between different datacenters is compressed
-#          none - nothing is compressed.
-internode_compression: all

http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator-brooklyn/blob/46bf6ff4/software/nosql/src/test/java/brooklyn/entity/nosql/cassandra/AstyanaxSupport.java
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diff --git a/software/nosql/src/test/java/brooklyn/entity/nosql/cassandra/AstyanaxSupport.java b/software/nosql/src/test/java/brooklyn/entity/nosql/cassandra/AstyanaxSupport.java
index 2df6451..7fdafc8 100644
--- a/software/nosql/src/test/java/brooklyn/entity/nosql/cassandra/AstyanaxSupport.java
+++ b/software/nosql/src/test/java/brooklyn/entity/nosql/cassandra/AstyanaxSupport.java
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ import static org.testng.Assert.assertTrue;
 
 import org.slf4j.Logger;
 import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
+import org.testng.Assert;
 
 import brooklyn.entity.basic.Attributes;
 import brooklyn.util.exceptions.Exceptions;
@@ -71,7 +72,7 @@ public class AstyanaxSupport {
         this.thriftPort = thriftPort;
     }
     
-    public AstyanaxContext<Keyspace> getAstyanaxContextForKeyspace(String keyspace) {
+    public AstyanaxContext<Keyspace> newAstyanaxContextForKeyspace(String keyspace) {
         AstyanaxContext<Keyspace> context = new AstyanaxContext.Builder()
                 .forCluster(clusterName)
                 .forKeyspace(keyspace)
@@ -89,7 +90,7 @@ public class AstyanaxSupport {
         return context;
     }
     
-    public AstyanaxContext<Cluster> getAstyanaxContextForCluster() {
+    public AstyanaxContext<Cluster> newAstyanaxContextForCluster() {
         AstyanaxContext<Cluster> context = new AstyanaxContext.Builder()
                 .forCluster(clusterName)
                 .withAstyanaxConfiguration(new AstyanaxConfigurationImpl()
@@ -175,13 +176,14 @@ public class AstyanaxSupport {
          */
         public void writeData() throws ConnectionException {
             // Create context
-            AstyanaxContext<Keyspace> context = getAstyanaxContextForKeyspace("BrooklynIntegrationTest");
+            AstyanaxContext<Keyspace> context = newAstyanaxContextForKeyspace("BrooklynIntegrationTest");
             try {
                 Keyspace keyspace = context.getEntity();
                 try {
-                    assertNull(keyspace.describeKeyspace().getColumnFamily(columnFamilyName));
+                    checkNull(keyspace.describeKeyspace().getColumnFamily(columnFamilyName), "key space for column family "+columnFamilyName);
                 } catch (Exception ek) {
-                    // (Re) Create keyspace if needed
+                    // (Re) Create keyspace if needed (including if family name already existed, 
+                    // e.g. due to a timeout on previous attempt)
                     log.debug("repairing Cassandra error by re-creating keyspace "+keyspace+": "+ek);
                     try {
                         log.debug("dropping Cassandra keyspace "+keyspace);
@@ -208,8 +210,8 @@ public class AstyanaxSupport {
                     }
                 }
                 
-                assertNull(keyspace.describeKeyspace().getColumnFamily("Rabbits"));
-                assertNull(keyspace.describeKeyspace().getColumnFamily(columnFamilyName));
+                assertNull(keyspace.describeKeyspace().getColumnFamily("Rabbits"), "key space for arbitrary column family Rabbits");
+                assertNull(keyspace.describeKeyspace().getColumnFamily(columnFamilyName), "key space for column family "+columnFamilyName);
 
                 // Create column family
                 keyspace.createColumnFamily(sampleColumnFamily, null);
@@ -217,12 +219,12 @@ public class AstyanaxSupport {
                 // Insert rows
                 MutationBatch m = keyspace.prepareMutationBatch();
                 m.withRow(sampleColumnFamily, "one")
-                .putColumn("name", "Alice", null)
-                .putColumn("company", "Cloudsoft Corp", null);
+                        .putColumn("name", "Alice", null)
+                        .putColumn("company", "Cloudsoft Corp", null);
                 m.withRow(sampleColumnFamily, "two")
-                .putColumn("name", "Bob", null)
-                .putColumn("company", "Cloudsoft Corp", null)
-                .putColumn("pet", "Cat", null);
+                        .putColumn("name", "Bob", null)
+                        .putColumn("company", "Cloudsoft Corp", null)
+                        .putColumn("pet", "Cat", null);
 
                 OperationResult<Void> insert = m.execute();
                 assertEquals(insert.getHost().getHostName(), hostname);
@@ -238,7 +240,7 @@ public class AstyanaxSupport {
          */
         public void readData() throws ConnectionException {
             // Create context
-            AstyanaxContext<Keyspace> context = getAstyanaxContextForKeyspace("BrooklynIntegrationTest");
+            AstyanaxContext<Keyspace> context = newAstyanaxContextForKeyspace("BrooklynIntegrationTest");
             try {
                 Keyspace keyspace = context.getEntity();
 
@@ -267,35 +269,50 @@ public class AstyanaxSupport {
         
 
         public void writeData(int numRetries) throws ConnectionException {
+            int retryCount = 0;
             while (true) {
                 try {
                     writeData();
                     return;
                 } catch (Exception e) {
-                    log.warn("Error writing data - num retries = "+numRetries+": "+e, e);
-                    if (--numRetries <= 0)
+                    log.warn("Error writing data - attempt "+(retryCount+1)+" of "+(numRetries+1)+": "+e, e);
+                    if (++retryCount > numRetries)
                         throw Exceptions.propagate(e);
                 }
             }
         }
 
         public void readData(int numRetries) throws ConnectionException {
+            int retryCount = 0;
             while (true) {
                 try {
                     readData();
                     return;
                 } catch (Exception e) {
-                    log.warn("Error reading data - num retries = "+numRetries+": "+e, e);
-                    if (--numRetries <= 0)
+                    log.warn("Error reading data - attempt "+(retryCount+1)+" of "+(numRetries+1)+": "+e, e);
+                    if (++retryCount > numRetries)
                         throw Exceptions.propagate(e);
                 }
             }
         }
 
+        /**
+         * Like {@link Assert#assertNull(Object, String)}, except throws IllegalStateException instead
+         */
+        private void checkNull(Object obj, String msg) {
+            if (obj != null) {
+                throw new IllegalStateException("Not null: "+msg+"; obj="+obj);
+            }
+        }
     }
 
     public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
         AstyanaxSample support = new AstyanaxSample("ignored", "ec2-79-125-32-2.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com", 9160);
-        System.out.println(support.getAstyanaxContextForCluster().getEntity().describeSchemaVersions());
+        AstyanaxContext<Cluster> context = support.newAstyanaxContextForCluster();
+        try {
+            System.out.println(context.getEntity().describeSchemaVersions());
+        } finally {
+            context.shutdown();
+        }
     }
 }

http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator-brooklyn/blob/46bf6ff4/software/nosql/src/test/java/brooklyn/entity/nosql/cassandra/CassandraDatacenterIntegrationTest.java
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diff --git a/software/nosql/src/test/java/brooklyn/entity/nosql/cassandra/CassandraDatacenterIntegrationTest.java b/software/nosql/src/test/java/brooklyn/entity/nosql/cassandra/CassandraDatacenterIntegrationTest.java
index 12e01f1..f496292 100644
--- a/software/nosql/src/test/java/brooklyn/entity/nosql/cassandra/CassandraDatacenterIntegrationTest.java
+++ b/software/nosql/src/test/java/brooklyn/entity/nosql/cassandra/CassandraDatacenterIntegrationTest.java
@@ -20,12 +20,12 @@ package brooklyn.entity.nosql.cassandra;
 
 import static com.google.common.base.Preconditions.checkNotNull;
 import static org.testng.Assert.assertEquals;
+import static org.testng.Assert.assertTrue;
 
 import java.math.BigInteger;
 
 import org.slf4j.Logger;
 import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
-import org.testng.Assert;
 import org.testng.annotations.BeforeMethod;
 import org.testng.annotations.Test;
 
@@ -35,9 +35,9 @@ import brooklyn.entity.nosql.cassandra.TokenGenerators.PosNeg63TokenGenerator;
 import brooklyn.entity.proxying.EntitySpec;
 import brooklyn.entity.trait.Startable;
 import brooklyn.location.Location;
+import brooklyn.test.Asserts;
 import brooklyn.test.EntityTestUtils;
-import brooklyn.util.time.Duration;
-import brooklyn.util.time.Time;
+import brooklyn.util.collections.MutableMap;
 
 import com.google.common.collect.ImmutableList;
 import com.google.common.collect.Iterables;
@@ -61,48 +61,73 @@ public class CassandraDatacenterIntegrationTest extends BrooklynAppLiveTestSuppo
         testLocation = app.newLocalhostProvisioningLocation();
     }
 
+    @Test(groups = "Integration")
+    public void testStartAndShutdownClusterSizeOne() throws Exception {
+        EntitySpec<CassandraDatacenter> spec = EntitySpec.create(CassandraDatacenter.class)
+                .configure("initialSize", 1)
+                .configure("tokenShift", 42);
+        runStartAndShutdownClusterSizeOne(spec, true);
+    }
+    
+    /**
+     * Cassandra v2 needs Java >= 1.7. If you have java 6 as the defult locally, then you can use
+     * something like {@code .configure("shell.env", MutableMap.of("JAVA_HOME", "/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.7.0_51.jdk/Contents/Home"))}
+     */
+    @Test(groups = "Integration")
+    public void testStartAndShutdownClusterSizeOneCassandraVersion2() throws Exception {
+        String version = "2.0.9";
+        
+        EntitySpec<CassandraDatacenter> spec = EntitySpec.create(CassandraDatacenter.class)
+                .configure(CassandraNode.SUGGESTED_VERSION, version)
+                .configure("initialSize", 1);
+        runStartAndShutdownClusterSizeOne(spec, false);
+    }
+    
     /**
      * Test that a single node cluster starts up and allows access via the Astyanax API.
      * Only one node because Cassandra can only run one node per VM!
      */
-    @Test(groups = "Integration")
-    public void testStartAndShutdownClusterSizeOne() throws Exception {
-        cluster = app.createAndManageChild(EntitySpec.create(CassandraDatacenter.class)
-                .configure("initialSize", 1).configure("tokenShift", 42));
+    protected void runStartAndShutdownClusterSizeOne(EntitySpec<CassandraDatacenter> datacenterSpec, final boolean assertToken) throws Exception {
+        cluster = app.createAndManageChild(datacenterSpec);
         assertEquals(cluster.getCurrentSize().intValue(), 0);
 
         app.start(ImmutableList.of(testLocation));
         Entities.dumpInfo(app);
-        CassandraNode node = (CassandraNode) Iterables.get(cluster.getMembers(), 0);
+        
+        final CassandraNode node = (CassandraNode) Iterables.get(cluster.getMembers(), 0);
         String nodeAddr = checkNotNull(node.getAttribute(CassandraNode.HOSTNAME), "hostname") + ":" + checkNotNull(node.getAttribute(CassandraNode.THRIFT_PORT), "thriftPort");
         
         EntityTestUtils.assertAttributeEqualsEventually(cluster, CassandraDatacenter.GROUP_SIZE, 1);
         EntityTestUtils.assertAttributeEqualsEventually(cluster, CassandraDatacenter.CASSANDRA_CLUSTER_NODES, ImmutableList.of(nodeAddr));
 
         EntityTestUtils.assertAttributeEqualsEventually(node, Startable.SERVICE_UP, true);
-        PosNeg63TokenGenerator tg = new PosNeg63TokenGenerator();
-        tg.growingCluster(1);
-        EntityTestUtils.assertAttributeEqualsEventually(node, CassandraNode.TOKEN, tg.newToken().add(BigInteger.valueOf(42)));
+        if (assertToken) {
+            PosNeg63TokenGenerator tg = new PosNeg63TokenGenerator();
+            tg.growingCluster(1);
+            EntityTestUtils.assertAttributeEqualsEventually(node, CassandraNode.TOKEN, tg.newToken().add(BigInteger.valueOf(42)));
+        }
 
         // may take some time to be consistent (with new thrift_latency checks on the node,
         // contactability should not be an issue, but consistency still might be)
-        for (int i=0; ; i++) {
-            boolean open = CassandraDatacenterLiveTest.isSocketOpen(node);
-            Boolean consistant = open ? CassandraDatacenterLiveTest.areVersionsConsistent(node) : null;
-            Integer numPeers = node.getAttribute(CassandraNode.PEERS);
-            String msg = "consistency:  "
-                    + (!open ? "unreachable" : consistant==null ? "error" : consistant)+"; "
-                    + "peer group sizes: "+numPeers;
-            log.info(msg);
-            if (open && Boolean.TRUE.equals(consistant) && numPeers==1)
-                break;
-            if (i == 0) log.warn("NOT yet consistent, waiting");
-            if (i >= 120) Assert.fail("Did not become consistent in time: "+msg);
-            Time.sleep(Duration.ONE_SECOND);
-        }
-
-        EntityTestUtils.assertAttributeEquals(node, CassandraNode.PEERS, 1);
-
-        CassandraDatacenterLiveTest.checkConnectionRepeatedly(2, 5, node, node);
+        Asserts.succeedsEventually(MutableMap.of("timeout", 120*1000), new Runnable() {
+            public void run() {
+                boolean open = CassandraDatacenterLiveTest.isSocketOpen(node);
+                Boolean consistant = open ? CassandraDatacenterLiveTest.areVersionsConsistent(node) : null;
+                Integer numPeers = node.getAttribute(CassandraNode.PEERS);
+                Integer liveNodeCount = node.getAttribute(CassandraNode.LIVE_NODE_COUNT);
+                String msg = "consistency:  "
+                        + (!open ? "unreachable" : consistant==null ? "error" : consistant)+"; "
+                        + "peer group sizes: "+numPeers + "; live node count: " + liveNodeCount;
+                assertTrue(open, msg);
+                assertEquals(consistant, Boolean.TRUE, msg);
+                if (assertToken) {
+                    assertEquals(numPeers, (Integer)1, msg);
+                } else {
+                    assertTrue(numPeers != null && numPeers >= 1, msg);
+                }
+                assertEquals(liveNodeCount, (Integer)1, msg);
+            }});
+        
+        CassandraDatacenterLiveTest.checkConnectionRepeatedly(2, 5, ImmutableList.of(node));
     }
 }