Installing MongoDB on Linux

In Last posts, we have gone through Overview and features of MongoDB. This tutorial includes: an overview of the available packages, instructions for configuring the package manager, the process install packages from the 10gen repository, and preliminary MongoDB configuration and operation.

Actually, we have two ways for installing.

1.) We can download .tgz or tar package and then can compile manually.

2.) We can create a repository, then use yum downloading and installing.

Here, I am going through 2nd way:

Package Options

The 10gen repository contains two packages:

• mongo-10gen-server
  This package contains the mongod and mongos daemons from the latest stable release and associated configuration and init scripts. Additionally, you can use this package to install daemons from a previous release of MongoDB.
• mongo-10gen
  This package contains all MongoDB tools from the latest stable release. Additionally, you can use this package to install tools from a previous release of MongoDB. Install this package on all production MongoDB hosts and optionally on other systems from which you may need to administer MongoDB systems.
  
  

  Install MongoDB

  Configure Package Management System (YUM)

  Create a /etc/yum.repos.d/10gen.repo file to hold information about your repository. If you are running a 64-bit system (recommended,) place the following configuration in /etc/yum.repos.d/10gen.repo file:

  [10gen]
  name=10gen Repository
  baseurl=http://downloads-distro.mongodb.org/repo/redhat/os/x86_64
  gpgcheck=0
  enabled=1
  

  If you are running a 32-bit system, which isn’t recommended for production deployments, place the following configuration in /etc/yum.repos.d/10gen.repo file:

  [10gen]
  name=10gen Repository
  baseurl=http://downloads-distro.mongodb.org/repo/redhat/os/i686
  gpgcheck=0
  enabled=1
  

  Install Packages

  Issue the following command (as root or with sudo) to install the latest stable version of MongoDB and the associated tools:

  yum install mongo-10gen mongo-10gen-server
  

  When this command completes, you have successfully installed MongoDB!

  
  

  Manage Installed Versions

  You can use the mongo-10gen and mongo-10gen-server packages to install previous releases of MongoDB. To install a specific release, append the version number, as in the following example:

  yum install mongo-10gen-2.2.3 mongo-10gen-server-2.2.3
  

  This installs the mongo-10gen and mongo-10gen-server packages with the 2.2.3 release. You can specify any available version of MongoDB; however yum willupgrade the mongo-10gen and mongo-10gen-server packages when a newer version becomes available. Use the following pinning procedure to prevent unintended upgrades.

  To pin a package, add the following line to your /etc/yum.conf file:

  exclude=mongo-10gen,mongo-10gen-server

Configure MongoDB

These packages configure MongoDB using the /etc/mongod.conf file in conjunction with the control script. You can find the init script at /etc/rc.d/init.d/mongod.

This MongoDB instance will store its data files in the /var/lib/mongo and its log files in /var/log/mongo, and run using the mongod user account.

Note

 

If you change the user that runs the MongoDB process, you will need to modify the access control rights to the /var/lib/mongo and /var/log/mongodirectories. Also there are number of parameters that we can change to do further modifications.

Control MongoDB

Warning

 

With the introduction of systemd in Fedora 15, the control scripts included in the packages available in the 10gen repository are not compatible with Fedora systems. 

Start MongoDB

Start the mongod process by issuing the following command (as root, or with sudo):

service mongod start

You can verify that the mongod process has started successfully by checking the contents of the log file at /var/log/mongo/mongod.log.

You may optionally, ensure that MongoDB will start following a system reboot, by issuing the following command (with root privileges:)

chkconfig mongod on

Stop MongoDB

Stop the mongod process by issuing the following command (as root, or with sudo):

service mongod stop

Restart MongoDB

You can restart the mongod process by issuing the following command (as root, or with sudo):

service mongod restart

Follow the state of this process by watching the output in the /var/log/mongo/mongod.log file to watch for errors or important messages from the server.

Control mongos

As of the current release, there are no control scripts for mongos. mongos is only used in sharding deployments and typically do not run on the same systems where mongodruns. You can use the mongodb script referenced above to derive your own mongos control script.

Using MongoDB

Among the tools included in the mongo-10gen package, is the mongo shell. You can connect to your MongoDB instance by issuing the following command at the system prompt:

mongo

This will connect to the database running on the localhost interface by default. At the mongo prompt, issue the following two commands to insert a record in the “test” collection of the (default) “test” database and then retrieve that document.

db.test.save( { a: 1 } )
db.test.find()

Thanks!!Kuldeep