Administration Commands¶

Name	Description
`renameCollection`	Changes the name of an existing collection.
`copydb`	Copies a database from a remote host to the current host.
`dropDatabase`	Removes the current database.
`listCollections`	Returns a list of collections in the current database.
`drop`	Removes the specified collection from the database.
`create`	Creates a collection and sets collection parameters.
`clone`	Copies a database from a remote host to the current host.
`cloneCollection`	Copies a collection from a remote host to the current host.
`cloneCollectionAsCapped`	Copies a non-capped collection as a new capped collection.
`convertToCapped`	Converts a non-capped collection to a capped collection.
`filemd5`	Returns the md5 hash for files stored using GridFS.
`createIndexes`	Builds one or more indexes for a collection.
`listIndexes`	Lists all indexes for a collection.
`dropIndexes`	Removes indexes from a collection.
`fsync`	Flushes pending writes to the storage layer and locks the database to allow backups.
`clean`	Internal namespace administration command.
`connPoolSync`	Internal command to flush connection pool.
`connectionStatus`	Reports the authentication state for the current connection.
`compact`	Defragments a collection and rebuilds the indexes.
`collMod`	Add flags to collection to modify the behavior of MongoDB.
`reIndex`	Rebuilds all indexes on a collection.
`setParameter`	Modifies configuration options.
`getParameter`	Retrieves configuration options.
`repairDatabase`	Repairs any errors and inconsistencies with the data storage.
`repairCursor`	Returns a cursor that iterates over all valid documents in a collection.
`touch`	Loads documents and indexes from data storage to memory.
`shutdown`	Shuts down the `mongod` or `mongos` process.
`logRotate`	Rotates the MongoDB logs to prevent a single file from taking too much space.

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