Install MongoDB Enterprise on Amazon Linux AMI¶

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Overview
Prerequisites
Install MongoDB Enterprise
Run MongoDB Enterprise

Overview¶

Use this tutorial to install MongoDB Enterprise on Amazon Linux AMI. MongoDB Enterprise is available on select platforms and contains support for several features related to security and monitoring.

This installation guide only supports 64-bit systems. See Platform Support for details.

Prerequisites¶

To install all of MongoDB’s dependencies, run the following command:

yum install cyrus-sasl cyrus-sasl-plain cyrus-sasl-gssapi krb5-libs \
            lm_sensors-libs net-snmp-agent-libs net-snmp openssl rpm-libs \
            tcp_wrappers-libs

Install MongoDB Enterprise¶

Note

To install a version of MongoDB prior to 3.2, please refer to that version’s documentation. For example, see version 3.0.

Note

The Enterprise packages include an example SNMP configuration file named mongod.conf. This file is not a MongoDB configuration file.

1

Download and install the MongoDB Enterprise packages.¶

After you have installed the required prerequisite packages, download and install the MongoDB Enterprise packages from https://mongodb.com/download/. The MongoDB binaries are located in the bin/ directory of the archive. To download and install, use the following sequence of commands.

curl -O https://downloads.mongodb.com/linux/mongodb-linux-x86_64-enterprise-amzn64-3.2.3.tgz
tar -zxvf mongodb-linux-x86_64-enterprise-amzn64-3.2.3.tgz
cp -R -n mongodb-linux-x86_64-enterprise-amzn64-3.2.3/ mongodb

2

Ensure the location of the MongoDB binaries is included in the `PATH` variable.¶

Once you have copied the MongoDB binaries to their target location, ensure that the location is included in your PATH variable. If it is not, either include it or create symbolic links from the binaries to a directory that is included.

Run MongoDB Enterprise¶

The MongoDB instance stores its data files in /data/db and its log files in /var/log/mongodb by default, and runs using the mongod user account. You can specify alternate log and data file directories in /etc/mongod.conf. See systemLog.path and storage.dbPath for additional information.

If you change the user that runs the MongoDB process, you must modify the access control rights to the /data/db and /var/log/mongodb directories to give this user access to these directories.

1

Create the data directory.¶

Before you start MongoDB for the first time, create the directory to which the mongod process will write data. By default, the mongod process uses the /data/db directory. If you create a directory other than this one, you must specify that directory in the dbpath option when starting the mongod process later in this procedure.

The following example command creates the default /data/db directory:

mkdir -p /data/db

2

Set permissions for the data directory.¶

Before running mongod for the first time, ensure that the user account running mongod has read and write permissions for the directory.

3

Run MongoDB.¶

To run MongoDB, run the mongod process at the system prompt. If necessary, specify the path of the mongod or the data directory. See the following examples.

Run without specifying paths¶

If your system PATH variable includes the location of the mongod binary and if you use the default data directory (i.e., /data/db), simply enter mongod at the system prompt:

mongod

Specify the path of the `mongod`¶

If your PATH does not include the location of the mongod binary, enter the full path to the mongod binary at the system prompt:

<path to binary>/mongod

Specify the path of the data directory¶

If you do not use the default data directory (i.e., /data/db), specify the path to the data directory using the --dbpath option:

mongod --dbpath <path to data directory>

4

Begin using MongoDB.¶

To help you start using MongoDB, MongoDB provides Getting Started Guides in various driver editions. See Getting Started for the available editions.

Before deploying MongoDB in a production environment, consider the Production Notes document.

Later, to stop MongoDB, press Control+C in the terminal where the mongod instance is running.

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