Thanks for the clarification -- it doesn't sound too bad for my purposes. As per your suggestion, I've created an issue: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-5080
Best regards, Sergey aaron morton wrote > The following features will not be available in the cli: > > * in describe keyspace you will not get current index rebuilds > * in describe keyspace you will not get current built indexes > > Do you want to create a ticket to add JMX user name and password support > to cassandra-cli ? https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA > > Cheers > ----------------- > Aaron Morton > Freelance Cassandra Developer > New Zealand > > @aaronmorton > http://www.thelastpickle.com > > On 19/12/2012, at 2:24 AM, Sergey Olefir < > solf.lists@ > > wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> for a number of reasons (particularly to prevent accidental access), I've >> decided to try to secure (slightly) our Cassandra installation(s). >> >> To this end I've started with 'securing' client access via code very >> similar >> to SimpleAuthenticator (in examples dir). This, however, has no effect on >> nodetool operation which uses JMX. So I went ahead with securing JMX >> access >> as well (via -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.password.file and >> -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.access.file). >> >> This seemed to work well, except now if I use cassandra-cli (on Windows) >> to >> interact with the server, it gives me the following: >> apache-cassandra-1.1.6\bin>cassandra-cli -h hostname -u experiment -pw >> password >> Starting Cassandra Client >> Connected to: "db" on hostname/9160 >> Welcome to Cassandra CLI version 1.1.6 >> >> [experiment@unknown] show keyspaces; >> WARNING: Could not connect to the JMX on hostname:7199, information won't >> be >> shown. >> >> Keyspace: system: >> Replication Strategy: org.apache.cassandra.locator.LocalStrategy >> Durable Writes: true >> Options: [replication_factor:1] >> ... (rest of keyspace output snipped) >> >> I am concerned about this WARNING. I still seem to get the output (at >> least >> for the 'system' keyspace, don't have anything else there yet), but I'm >> wondering what problems I can expect and if there's a way to resolve this >> WARNING (I'm guessing it has to do with specifying credentials for JMX in >> addition to credentials used for client access)? >> >> Thanks in advance, >> Sergey >> >> >> >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://cassandra-user-incubator-apache-org.3065146.n2.nabble.com/cassandra-cli-secured-JMX-WARNING-Could-not-connect-to-the-JMX-tp7584322.html >> Sent from the > cassandra-user@.apache > mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- View this message in context: http://cassandra-user-incubator-apache-org.3065146.n2.nabble.com/cassandra-cli-secured-JMX-WARNING-Could-not-connect-to-the-JMX-tp7584322p7584375.html Sent from the cassandra-u...@incubator.apache.org mailing list archive at Nabble.com.