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Manage MongoDB servers and replica sets using JSON configurations!
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Overview

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`mongoctl` is a lightweight command line utility that simplifies the

installation of MongoDB and management of MongoDB servers and replica set

clusters. It is particularly useful if you maintain many MongoDB environments

with lots of configurations to manage.



The core philosophy behind `mongoctl` is that all server and cluster

configuration be defined declaratively as data, rather than procedurally as

code or scripts. So, instead of typing shell commands with lots of options that

you can never remember, or writing a bunch of shell scripts hard-coded with

hosts, port numbers, and file-system paths, you simply define the universe of

servers and clusters with JSON objects and pass them to `mongoctl` commands.

Server and cluster definitions can reside in flat-files, behind a web-server

(like Github for instance), or in a MongoDB database. 



#### Usage



```

Usage: mongoctl []  []



A utility that simplifies the management of MongoDB servers and replica set clusters.



Options:

  -h, --help            show this help message and exit

  -v, --verbose         make mongoctl more verbose

  -n, --noninteractive  bypass prompting for user interaction

  --yes                 auto yes to all yes/no prompts

  --no                  auto no to all yes/no prompts

  --config-root CONFIGROOT

                        path to mongoctl config root; defaults to ~/.mongoctl



Commands:

  Admin Commands:

    install-mongodb           - install MongoDB

    uninstall-mongodb         - uninstall MongoDB

    list-versions             - list all available MongoDB installations on this machine



  Client Commands:

    connect                   - open a mongo shell connection to a server

    dump                      - export MongoDB data to BSON files (using mongodump)

    restore                   - restore MongoDB (using mongorestore)



  Server Commands:

    start                     - start a server

    stop                      - stop a server

    restart                   - restart a server

    status                    - retrieve status of server

    list-servers              - show list of configured servers

    show-server               - show server's configuration

    tail-log                  - tails a server's log file

    resync-secondary          - Resyncs a secondary member



  Cluster Commands:

    configure-cluster         - initiate or reconfigure a cluster

    list-clusters             - show list of configured clusters

    show-cluster              - show cluster's configuration



  Miscellaneous:

    print-uri                 - prints connection URI for a server or cluster



See 'mongoctl  --help' for more help on a specific command.

```



Installation

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#### Requirements



* Linux or MacOSX (`mongoctl` does not currently support Windows) 

* Python 2.6 or 2.7 (3.x not yet supported)

* pip >= 1.0.2 ([instructions on installing pip](docs/installing-pip.md))

* If planning to build MongoDB from source, i.e. with `mongoctl install-mongodb

  --build-from-source`: the `scons` tool (typically available in your package

  manager, such as `apt`, `yum/dnf` or `brew`.)



#### Supported MongoDB versions



`mongoctl` supports MongoDB versions >= 1.8.



#### Installing mongoctl



`mongoctl` is registered in the [Python package

index](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/mongoctl) (PyPI).



Note: you may need to prefix these commands with ``sudo`` if you're using a

system-level Python install (i.e. if running ``pip`` by itself results in

permissions errors.) For example, ``sudo pip install mongoctl`` will install

``mongoctl`` to your system Python.



To install:



```

% pip install mongoctl

```



To update:



```

% pip install --upgrade mongoctl

```



To uninstall:



```

% pip uninstall mongoctl

```



#### Running mongoctl's test suite



To run mongoctl's test suite, execute the following command:



```

% python -m mongoctl.tests.test_suite

```



Note: executing the test suite will download and install a temporary copy of

MongoDB (cached in a subfolder of `mongoctl/tests`) for use while testing.



Documentation

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* [Quick-start guide](docs/quick-start.md)

* [Configuring mongoctl](docs/configuring-mongoctl.md)

* [Managing MongoDB installations](docs/managing-installations.md)

* [Managing servers](docs/managing-servers.md)

* [Managing clusters](docs/managing-clusters.md)

* [Connecting to servers with the mongo shell](docs/connecting.md)

* [Command reference](docs/command-reference.md)