I have a script that I wrote to query mongodb in python I am using PyMongo. I am trying to use this script to connect to a remote MongoDB server and then run the query within the script and then I want to be able to dump the data I get back from the mongodb into a file.
What are the parameters I need to have at the top of the script to connect to this database, use my username and password, switch to the correct database and then run the query?
Couple of options.
First you could provide a MongoDB URI which can be provided to the MongoClient as an argument. Then you can switch as needed using the standard methods for getting a database once connected.
Alternately, you can connect as normal, use the getting a database once connected method to get the desired database and then use the authenticate function to authenticate against the database.
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I'm new to MongoDB and I'm having some problems with MongoDB recently.
I'm not sure about Connect with the MongoDB Shell, Connect your application, Connect using MongoDB Compass, what's the difference?
The current demand is. I want to directly allow connection from anywhere and create a user account password to log into this database, which option should I choose?
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In Connect your application tab, you get a link that you need to copy
and paste in your application you are building to connect it to the
database. Remember to replace your password and databse name.
In Connect using MongoDB Compass tab, you get a link that you need
to paste in your compass application(A desktop application that
makes your mongodb data handling so much easier). And again remember to replace
your credentials.
I'm not very fond of Mongodb shell. It's actually an extensible
command-line interface.
Via shell, I can directly connect to mongo database with this string
mongo --ssl host1,host2:port/MyDataBase...
And I land directly on the MyDataBase.
Is there a similar way to do it in Compass? I get connected to whole server and I can see all the other databases. I just want to connect to MyDataBase.
I am using the lattest version of Compass, so it may differ from your current version.
It is important the you are in the network of the server, or use a VPN connection, otherwise, it does not work.
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Please,let me know if that works!
I've been running my application with a readOnly=false admin user for 6 months in development on MongoDB 2.2.2. We're getting closer to launch and I wanted to switch over the user that my application runs under to a user in the application's database only with readOnly=false.
I ran the following script from the robomongo as the admin user.
use MyDB
db.addUser("api", "MyPassword", {"readOnly": false});
I also updated the MongoDB connection string to the following.
<add key="DataServer" value="mongodb://api:MyPassword#localhost:27017/MyDB" />
It created my user correctly and I validated that it is in MyDB and is readOnly=false. However, when I use the MongoDB c# driver 1.8.1 it fails on any writes with a WriteConcernException unauthorized. I am able to read records just fine from the database. Looking at the MongoDB logs it is correctly logging into my DB from my c# application but failing on the write calls.
Using the robomongo shell I was able to successfully auth with the api user and write records into one of the collections in the application's DB. So it's leading me to believe that it's something to do with the c# driver. I've also debugged my application code and validated that the MongoClient's GetServer method is returning a MongoServer that has the correct credentials.
Here's the robomongo shell script I ran to validate the user is able to write to the DB.
use MyDB
db.auth("api","MyPassword");
db.Person.insert({"first_name":"Test","last_name":"User"});
db.Person.find({"first_name":"Test"});
Any help as to why the MongoDB c# 1.8.1 driver connecting to MongoDB 2.2.2 and not being able to write records in a user DB with a readOnly=false user would be greatly appreciated.
I can't really see much wrong with your code. I'd suggest trying the following:
Make sure you're reading the DataServer app setting correctly in your C# code (including the DB name)
Create the user in the admin database and see if that helps:
use admin
db.addUser("api", "MyPassword"); // readonly defaults to false
I have a web service application built using NodeJS. I am using mongodb as database.
The whole thing is in another system(A) in the network. Now I need to copy all the data to the mongodb database in my system(B).
Can anyone tell me the whole procedure in detail, like even from where I should execute the commands also. I am a beginner and have very little knowledge about mongodb.
You can use the db.cloneDatabase() command for that (docs).
Start the mongo shell from the command line on the destination server by running: mongo
Identify the name of the database to copy: use name
Copy the database from the source server: db.cloneDatabase("1.2.3.4")
Use mongodump and mongorestore utility.
I'm a beginner with MongoDB and I've some questions:
When I'm connected to Mongo, and i execute show dbs I see 2 databases: admin and local. What's their role? Then if I execute an insert command like db.foo.insert({"value":"mongo"}), the test database appears. Why? How can i specify a custom name for a database?
With show dbs I get the databases (somehow like show databases in sql), how can I then list the collections inside a database (I would use show tables in sql)?
When executing a command, the MongoDB tutorial always uses the db object. Is it the main object (a sort of "connection" object) that has to used for executing commands or it's something else?
Thanks!
admin and local contain various settings local to the server, like users who are authenticated to connect. Under beginner usage, you shouldn't need to worry about them at all. By default you connect to a database named test. To connect to a new database, just use databasename from the mongo command line, or mongo databasename from your OS shell.
use [database_name] and then show collections
The db object is your root handle to the currently-selected database on the mongo commmand line. The command line is really just a Javascript command line, and there are various mongodb-specific objects and functions exposed that let you do stuff. Try help() for a full listing.