Self-Managed Server Administration

In this unit, you learned how to:

• Install MongoDB Community Edition on Ubuntu Linux
• Start, stop, and check the status of a mongod service
• Identify default configuration options and their purpose
• Locate the default configuration file
• Modify a configuration file
• Connect to the MongoDB Shell on a new mongod instance
• Use the localhost exception to create the first admin user 
• Use basic database commands
• Use db.adminCommand() to run administrative commands on the admin database
• Use show log and show log global to access the logs from the MongoDB Shell
• Retrieve the logPath from the MongoDB Shell

Use the following resources to learn more about Self-Managed Server Administration with MongoDB.

Lesson 1: Managing MongoDB Servers

• Install MongoDB
  

Lesson 2: Configuring MongoDB Servers

• Configuration File
  

Lesson 3: Connecting to MongoDB Servers

• MongoDB Shell (mongosh)
• Connect to a Deployment
• mongosh Methods
• db.adminCommand()

Lesson 4: Logging Basics for MongoDB Servers

• Log Messages