View the current status of the Decision Data Store service and manage all Pega Platform nodes that are configured to store the data that is used in decision management, such as customer data.
Note: You need at least one decision data store node to run the Adaptive Decision Manager and Visual Business Director services. If you want to add a node for the ADM or VBD service and no nodes are on the Decision Data Store tab, a node is automatically added on that tab to support running the ADM or VBD service.
Select the Use external Cassandra cluster check box if you want to use a database that is external to Pega Platform for handling decision management data.
To connect to the D-Node cluster by using third-party or custom tools to load or extract data through the Thrift protocol, specify port 9160 or to use the CQL3 Cassandra protocol, specify port 9042.
Change the default Cassandra user ID and password. Use the credentials for the external Cassandra database.
Note: When you decide to switch back to internal Cassandra, change the Cassandra user ID and password to dnode_ext.
Select a logging level.
For more information about Cassandra driver loggers, see the DataStax documentation for Cassandra.