Have you tried specifying your hostname (not localhost) in cassandra.yaml and start it?
Regards, Shahab On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 8:39 AM, pradeep kumar <pradeepkuma...@gmail.com>wrote: > I am very new to cassandra. Just started exploring. > > I am running a single node cassandra server & facing a problem in seeing > status of the cassandra using nodetool command. > > i have hostname configured on my VM as myMachineIP cass1 in /etc/hosts > > and > > i configured my cassandra_instal_path/conf/cassandra.yaml file with > listen_address, rpc_address as localhost and clustername as casscluster > > (also tried with my hostname which is cass1 as listen_address/rpc_address) > > Nut not sure what is the reason why i am not able to get statususing > nodetool command. > > $ nodetool > > Cannot resolve '127.0.0.1': unknown host > > $ nodetool -host 127.0.0.1 > > Cannot resolve '127.0.0.1': unknown host > > $ nodetool -host cass1 > > Cannot resolve 'cass1': unknown host > > But i am able to connect to cassandra-cli > > console output: > > Connected to: "casscluster" on 127.0.0.1/9160 Welcome to Cassandra CLI > version 1.2.8 > > Type 'help;' or '?' for help. Type 'quit;' or 'exit;' to quit. > > my /etc/hosts looks like: > > 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost.localdomain localhost4 > localhost4.localdomain4 localhost cass1 > > ::1 localhost.localdomain localhost.localdomain localhost6 > localhost6.localdomain6 localhost cass1 > > [myMachineIP] cass1 > > what could be the reason why i am not able to run nodetool? > > Please help. >