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Hi, you can configure the workload in /etc/default/dse (SOLR_ENABLED=1). You will then need to restart the service in order for the change to take affect. Please note that workloads are DC specific, so when you state standalone, then I'm not sure if you're talking about a single node in a DC, or you just want to standup one node of many as search within the same DC. If it's the latter, that's not a supported configuration. Whether it's search or analytics, you need to make sure that all nodes in the dc have the same workload.

If you've installed DSE as a package using YUM on RHEL/CentOS machines or APT on Ubuntu/Debian systems, you need to initialise the DSE service by setting the workload type to Search in /etc/default/dse with:

SOLR_ENABLED=1

and then start DSE as a service with:

$ sudo service dse start

If you've installed DSE using the binary tarball, you need to start DSE as a standalone process with the -s flag:

$ cd /path/to/tarball/installation
$ bin/dse cassandra -s

If you need more information, I've linked the relevant docs above. Cheers!