Administration Tools
This section describes the system administration interfaces and tools that are available in Exasol.
- Exasol Deployment Tool (c4)
- Exasol Deployment Tool (c4) is a command line-tool used to create and manage Exasol deployments. Through c4 you can also connect to the nodes in a cluster and run the administration tools confd_client and EXAsupport.
- ConfD
- ConfD is a low-level API that enables you to carry out administrative tasks on an Exasol cluster using either the command-line tool confd_client or through XML-RPC in your own Python programs.
- Administration API
- Exasol Administration API is a RESTful API built on top of ConfD, which allows you to carry out common administration tasks using RESTful commands through various programming languages and interfaces.
- EXAsupport
- EXAsupport is a command-line tool used to create logs for troubleshooting. EXAsupport is available on all nodes in a cluster and is accessed through Exasol Deployment Tool (c4).