Use jconsole give your hostname:port (hostname,port on which cassandra is running) then from the MBean select storage service . On the storage service MBean execute operation loadSchemaFromXML();
You may have to change the hostname in the your cassandra jmx settings thanks A On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 1:16 PM, Jim the Standing Bear < standingb...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I am just learning Cassandra at the moment. The O'Reilly book on > Cassandra says that I should be able to add the keyspace schema > definition to cassandra.yaml and then invoke loadSchemaFromYAML() to > load it. I tried that but it didn't work (and I do realize this book > is a bit obsolete now). Another post that I read says keyspace > definition in cassandra.yaml is ignored because cassandra now supports > programmatically loading schema. However, I still would like to know > if there is a way to load it non-programmatically. Thanks. > > -- Jim >