Connect to Your Federated Database Instance
Estimated completion time: 15 minutes
This part of the tutorial will walk you through connecting to your
federated database instance using the MongoDB Shell, mongosh.
Prerequisites
To complete this part of the tutorial, you will need to have completed the following:
Connect Using the MongoDB Shell
Connecting to your federated database instance depends on whether you have the MongoDB
shell, mongosh, installed:
Note
Only one user can authenticate on a connection to a federated database instance at any
given time. If a user authenticates and then runs the db.auth()
command, Data Federation replaces the previous user's permissions with the new
user's permissions.
The connectionStatus
command shows only the newly authenticated user in the
authenticatedUsers output field.
Next Steps
Now that you're connected to your federated database instance, proceed to Verify Your Database and Collections.