.. _cassandra_tools: Cassandra Command-Line Tools ============================ The GeoMesa Cassandra distribution includes a set of command-line tools for feature management, ingest, export and debugging. To install the tools, see :ref:`setting_up_cassandra_commandline`. Once installed, the tools should be available through the command ``geomesa-cassandra``:: $ geomesa-cassandra INFO Usage: geomesa-cassandra [command] [command options] Commands: ... All Cassandra commands are described in the common tools chapter :doc:`/user/cli/index`. General Arguments ----------------- Most commands require you to specify the connection to Cassandra. This generally includes a contact point, key space, username and password. Specify the contact point and key space with ``--contact-point`` and ``--key-space`` (or ``-P`` and ``-k``). Specify the username and password with ``--user`` and ``--password`` (or ``-u`` and ``-p``). In order to avoid plaintext passwords in the bash history and process list, the password argument may be omitted, which will trigger a prompt for it later.