Unable to locate resource hector-core-1.1-3-SNAPSHOT.jar

If you ever get the following message regarding the hector client, you can install it manually by download the file from the hectorclient website.

Error message:

Unable to locate resource https://oss.sonatype.org/content/groups/public/org/hectorclient/hector-core/1.1-3-SNAPSHOT/hector-core-1.1-3-SNAPSHOT.jar

Installation command:

mvn install:install-file -DgroupId=org.hectorclient -DartifactId=hector-core -Dversion=1.1-3-SNAPSHOT -Dpackaging=jar -Dfile=~/Downloads/hector-core-1.1-3-20130112.031550-9.jar

Cassandra Hector - May not be enough replicas present to handle consistency level.

If you get this error, make sure your datacenter and rack names are the same as the ones when you create your keyspace.

Make sure everything is lowercase.

For example:

In /etc/cassandra/cassandra-topology.properties, change all to lowercase.

10.216.218.73=dc1:rac1
10.31.2.31=dc2:rac1
default=dc1:rac1

Then create the keyspace in lowercase.

create keyspace helloworld with replication ={'class': 'NetworkTopologyStrategy', 'dc1': 1, 'dc2',1};