Articles tagged as server
Configuring Neo4j to operate on privileged ports
In some environments, users are required to run Neo4j on ports lower than 1024 due to corporate policies. The following is a sample configuration showing how to configure Neo4j 3.5…
Explanation of data/log/console.log error of 'TLS certificate error occurred, unable to start server: Neither RSA, DSA nor EC worked…'
On bin/neo4j start the data/log/console.log may log an error similar to Neo4j allows for the configuration of HTTPS certificates via the parameters in conf/neo4j-server.properties. The following are the default values:…
How do I automate the copy of auth files in a clustered environment
In a clustered Neo4j implementation, user authentication files are recorded in each instance at $NEO4J_HOME/data/dbms. Since this defined per each instance in the cluster if for example you change the…
How do i configure Neo4j so that data/graph.db/messages.log is automatically rotated
As tested and verified with Neo4j 2.3.0, the data/graph.db/messages.log, its size and number of rotated archives is governed by the following parameters in the conf/neo4j.properties file With the above default…
How do I use Cypher to connect to a RDBMS using JDBC
With the inclusion of java stored procedures in Neo4j 3.x, one can run Cypher to connect to a RDBMS using JDBC. To do so one needs to download and install…
How to install Neo4j in a disconnected environment
Premise: You are working with a private/disconnected environment and would like to install the Neo4j Database using RPM packages as a source. You can download the RPM packages on a…
How to monitor if a follower is in sync with Leader (Causal Cluster)
To monitor if a Follower is in sync with its Leader, or know how much it is lagging behind, it is possible to check the Last Commited Transaction Id from…
How to properly shutdown a Neo4j database after receiving the message took more than 120 seconds to stop
The neo4j script under the bin/ directory of any standard Neo4j install is the primary means of shutting down a running Neo4j instance. That script accepts a stop argument that…
Proper File Permissions on Neo4j Server
When installing Neo4j Server, keep in mind that the bin/neo4j executable will need to be run by some OS system user, and that user will need write permissions to some…
Understanding logical logs and effects of parameters keep_logical_logs and logical_log_rotation_threshold
Neo4j maintains logical logs for incremental backup and cluster consistency. The logical logs are named as follows: When one runs a database backup, via bin/neo4j-backup, if the -to <target directory>…
When authentication is enabled in Neo4j, how do I call the HA Status
One can enable authentication for the Neo4j database by adding the following to the conf/neo4j-server.properties In doing so any connections to the database will need to provide a username/password. However,…
Why does my CREATE CONSTRAINT take so long to complete
When creating a constraint, for example this will require a lock on all nodes with the label the constraint is being created for, in this case ZipCode If you have…
Will execution_guard_enabled work in my release of Neo4j?
Background From the beginning, the execution guard was never meant to be used by the general public. However, the feature was there in the product, though undocumented, and it did…