db.serverStatus()['repl'] no response

Ops and Admin Replication
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Hi fellows,

I build a replication set of three nodes om ports 27011 27012 and 27013. if I run

db.serverStatus()[‘repl’] I get no response neither on the master node1 nor the default mongo on port 27017 but

db.serverStatus() shows me
{
*** “ok” : 0,***
*** “errmsg” : “command serverStatus requires authentication”,***
*** “code” : 13,***
*** “codeName” : “Unauthorized”,***
*** “$clusterTime” : {***
*** “clusterTime” : Timestamp(1657802463, 1),***
*** “signature” : {***
*** “hash” : BinData(0,“eNE3SoG72nibCQq+fImaox4jGhQ=”),***
*** “keyId” : NumberLong(“7119783323987083266”)***
*** }***
*** },***
*** “operationTime” : Timestamp(1657802463, 1)***

on node1

and

{
*** “ok” : 0,***
*** “errmsg” : “command serverStatus requires authentication”,***
*** “code” : 13,***
*** “codeName” : “Unauthorized”***
}

on the default mongo on port 27017

Why does this

db.serverStatus()[‘repl’]

not show any response?

Thanks in advance,

Uli

2

Hi
there is a response

*** “errmsg” : “command serverStatus requires authentication”,***
*** “code” : 13,***
*** “codeName” : “Unauthorized”***

you need to authenticate yourself

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3

Hi Arek,

Thanks fpor your reply. How do I authenticate myself using the

db.serverStatus()[‘repl’]

command?

Regards,

Uli

4

you need to authenticate yourself when you are connecting to mongo instance - for example via mongosh,

mongosh --port 27017  --authenticationDatabase "admin" -u "user" -p "password"

or

mongosh --port 27017
use admin
db.auth("myUserAdmin", passwordPrompt()) // or cleartext password

once you authenticate yourself successfully you can use
db.serverStatus()

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5

in addition to @Arkadiusz_Borucki 's answer above on how you connect with credentials, you are connecting to the wrong server.

the server on 27017 seems to be a single node default server running with the default config file. This server is not a part of your replica set.

You need to use --host and --port flags for your replica set servers, where ports are the ones I quoted. if all 3 runs on your local machine, you don’t need to supply host IP, else you will need that too.

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