Cassandra cqlsh “unable to connect to any servers”

Question

I get the following message when executing cqlsh.bat on the command line

Connection error: (\'Unable to connect to any servers\', {\'127.0.0.1\': ProtocolError(\         


        

Answer 1

You can force cqlsh to use a specific cql version using the flag

--cqlversion="#.#.#"

Example cqlsh usage (and key/values):

cqlsh 12.34.56.78 1234 -u username -p password --cqlversion="3.2.0"
cqlsh (IP ADDR)  (PORT)  (DB_USERN)  (DB_PASS)               (VER)