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ScyllaDB Web Installer for Linux¶

ScyllaDB Web Installer is a platform-agnostic installation script you can run with curl to install ScyllaDB on Linux.

See ScyllaDB Download Center for information on manually installing ScyllaDB with platform-specific installation packages.

Prerequisites¶

Ensure that your platform is supported by the ScyllaDB version you want to install. See OS Support by Platform and Version.

Install ScyllaDB with Web Installer¶

To install ScyllaDB with Web Installer, run:

curl -sSf get.scylladb.com/server | sudo bash

By default, running the script installs the latest official version of ScyllaDB Open Source. You can use the following options to install a different version or ScyllaDB Enterprise:

Option	Acceptable values	Description
`--scylla-product`	`scylla` \| `scylla-enterprise`	Specifies the ScyllaDB product to install: Open Source (`scylla`) or Enterprise (`scylla-enterprise`) The default is `scylla`.
`--scylla-version`	`<version number>`	Specifies the ScyllaDB version to install. You can specify the major release (`x.y`) to install the latest patch for that version or a specific patch release (`x.y.x`). The default is the latest official version.

You can run the command with the -h or --help flag to print information about the script.

Examples¶

Installing ScyllaDB Open Source 6.0.1:

curl -sSf get.scylladb.com/server | sudo bash -s -- --scylla-version 6.0.1

Installing the latest patch release for ScyllaDB Open Source 6.0:

curl -sSf get.scylladb.com/server | sudo bash -s -- --scylla-version 6.0

Installing ScyllaDB Enterprise 2024.1:

curl -sSf get.scylladb.com/server | sudo bash -s -- --scylla-product scylla-enterprise --scylla-version 2024.1

Configure and Run ScyllaDB¶

Configure the following parameters in the /etc/scylla/scylla.yaml configuration file.
- cluster_name - The name of the cluster. All the nodes in the cluster must have the same cluster name configured.
- seeds - The IP address of the first node. Other nodes will use it as the first contact point to discover the cluster topology when joining the cluster.
- listen_address - The IP address that ScyllaDB uses to connect to other nodes in the cluster.
- rpc_address - The IP address of the interface for CQL client connections.
Run the scylla_setup script to tune the system settings and determine the optimal configuration.
```
sudo scylla_setup
```
- The script invokes a set of scripts to configure several operating system settings; for example, it sets RAID0 and XFS filesystem.
- The script runs a short (up to a few minutes) benchmark on your storage and generates the /etc/scylla.d/io.conf configuration file. When the file is ready, you can start ScyllaDB. ScyllaDB will not run without XFS or io.conf file.
- You can bypass this check by running ScyllaDB in developer mode. We recommend against enabling developer mode in production environments to ensure ScyllaDB’s maximum performance.
Run ScyllaDB as a service (if not already running).
```
sudo systemctl start scylla-server
```

Now you can start using ScyllaDB. Here are some tools you may find useful.

Run nodetool:

nodetool status

Run cqlsh:

cqlsh

Run cassandra-stress:

cassandra-stress write -mode cql3 native

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