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Convert a Standalone to a Replica Set

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Ops Manager provides the ability to convert a standalone instance to a replica set. When converted, the replica set will have the former standalone instance as its primary.

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  1. If it is not already displayed, select the organization that contains your desired project from the Organizations menu in the navigation bar.

  2. If it is not already displayed, select your desired project from the Projects menu in the navigation bar.

  3. If it is not already displayed, click Deployment in the sidebar.

  1. Click the Clusters view.

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Enter the replica set name and click the Convert button.

Important

Ops Manager displays the Editing Replica Set view. The following steps describe the contents of each section in that view.

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The Replica Set Configuration section contains the following cluster-wide configuration settings. Settings whose values are grey and non-interactive are immutable.

Setting
Description
Replica Set Id

Enter the name of your replica set deployment. You cannot change this once set. This setting corresponds to the _id replica configuration option.

Auth Schema Version

Select the schema for storing the user for storing the user data for your deployment. If you are upgrading from a MongoDB version older than 3.0, MongoDB 3.0+ uses a different schema for user data than previous versions. For compatibility information, see the Security Changes in the MongoDB 3.0 release notes.

Feature Compatibility Version

Select the Feature Compatibility Version of the deployment. Ops Manager displays this field if your deployment runs MongoDB version 3.4 or later.

Replica Set Settings

Displays an table of each process associated with the replica set. You can configure the MongoDB server version, data directory, and log path of each process.

Process Name

Hostname and port of a mongod process. This hostname can be a hostname, an FQDN, an IPv4 address, or an IPv6 address. Ops Manager initially groups each process under the replica set name. Click the to the left of the replica set name to display all mongod processes in the replica set.

Ops Manager applies any settings configured for the replica set to all of its associated processes.

Version

Select the MongoDB server version of the ~bin.mongod process.

Note

Available Versions

Ops Manager lists only the MongoDB versions that are available for your deployment.

To disable this filtering, see automation.versions.download.baseUrl.allowOnlyAvailableBuilds.

Data Directory

Specify the directory where the ~bin.mongod process stores data files. This setting corresponds to the storage.dbPath ~bin.mongod configuration file option. The Ops Manager Automation must have file system permission to read, write, and execute all files and folders in the specified directory.

Each ~bin.mongod process must have its own database directory. If deploying multiple ~bin.mongod processes on the same host, ensure each process has its own distinct directory.

Log File

Specify the full path to the ~bin.mongod log file, including the log file name and extension. This setting corresponds to the systemLog.path configuration file option. The ~bin.mongod must have permission to read and write to the specified file.

Example

Specifying /var/log/mongodb/mongo.log directs the ~bin.mongod to store its logfile to /var/log/mongodb/ as mongo.log.

The ~bin.mongod have its own unique log file. If deploying multiple ~bin.mongod processes to the same host, ensure each ~bin.mongod has its own distinct logfile.

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Ops Manager lists each replica set member under the MongoD Settings heading of the Member Configuration section. Each replica set member has the following options:

Setting
Description
Member

Select one of the following replica set member roles from the menu:

  • Default

    A data-bearing member of the replica set that can become the primary and vote in elections.

  • Arbiter

    A non-data bearing member of the replica set that can vote in elections. Corresponds to the arbiterOnly replica configuration option.

  • Hidden

    A data-bearing member of the replica set that can vote in elections. Corresponds to the hidden replica configuration option.

  • Delayed Hidden

    A data-bearing member of the replica set that can vote in elections. Corresponds to the secondaryDelaySecs and hidden replica configuration options.

Hostname

Select from the menu the host to which Ops Manager Automation deploys the replica set member. The menu only lists hosts under Ops Manager Automation. For complete documentation on adding servers to Ops Manager Automation, see Provision Servers for Automation.

This hostname can be a hostname, an FQDN, an IPv4 address, or an IPv6 address.

Port

Specify the IANA port number for the ~bin.mongod process. This setting corresponds to the net.port configuration file option. Defaults to 27017.

The ~bin.mongod must have exclusive access to the specified port. If deploying multiple ~bin.mongod processes to a single host, you must select a unique unused port for each process.

Votes

Specify the number of votes that the replica set member has during elections. This setting corresponds to the votes ~bin.mongod replica set configuration option.

Priority

Specify the priority of the member during elections. Replica set members with a priority of 0 cannot become the primary and cannot trigger elections. This setting corresponds to the priority ~bin.mongod replica set configuration option.

Delay

Specify the number of seconds "behind" the primary member this member should "lag". This setting corresponds to the secondaryDelaySecs ~bin.mongod replica set configuration option.

Build Indexes

Specify true to direct the ~bin.mongod to build indexes. This setting corresponds to the buildIndexes ~bin.mongod replica set configuration option.

Tags

Specify the tag or tags associated to the replica set. This setting corresponds to the tags ~bin.mongod replica set configuration option.

For complete documentation on replica set tags, see Replica Set Tags

Add a Mongod

Adds an additional ~bin.mongod process as a replica set member.

Adding a new ~bin.mongod process also updates the list of processes in the Replica Set Configuration section. You must configure the Version, Data Directory, and Log File of the new process.

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The Replication Settings section contains the following configuration options for the replica set:

Setting
Description
Protocol Version

Select the replication protocol version used by the replica set. This setting corresponds to the protocolVersion replica set configuration option.

For more information, see Replica Set Protocol Versions.

Chaining Allowed

Specify true to allow secondary members to replicate from other secondary members. This setting corresponds to the chainingAllowed replica set configuration option.

Write Concern Majority Journal Default

Determines the behavior of {w:"majority"} write concern if the write concern does not explicitly specify the journal option j. This setting corresponds to the writeConcernMajorityJournalDefault replica set configuration option.

Heartbeat Timeout (secs)

Specify the number of seconds that the replica set members wait for a successful heartbeat from each other. This setting corresponds to the heartbeatTimeoutSecs replica set configuration option.

Election Timeout (ms)

Specify the time limit in milliseconds for detecting when a replica set's primary is unreachable. This setting corresponds to the electionTimeoutMillis replica set configuration option.

CatchUp Timeout (ms)

Specify the time limit in milliseconds for a newly elected primary to sync, or catch up, with the other replica set members that may have more recent writes. This setting corresponds to the catchUpTimeoutMillis replica set configuration option.

CatchUp Takeover Delay (ms)

Specify the time in milliseconds a node waits to initiate a catchup takeover after determining it is ahead of the current primary. This setting corresponds to the catchUpTakeoverDelayMillis replica set configuration option.

Last Error Defaults

Specify the default write concern for the replica set. The replica set uses this write concern only when write operations or getLastError specify no other write concern.

If this option is not set, the default write concern for the replica set only requires confirmation from the primary.

Specify this option in the form of a document, i.e., {"w":2}.

Force Reconfigure

Specify that you want to force a reconfiguration of the replica set. When set to Yes, the MongoDB Agent forces the replica set to accept a new configuration even if a majority of its members are unavailable.

Warning

Forcing a replica set reconfiguration might lead to a rollback of majority-committed writes.

Proceed with caution. Contact MongoDB Support if you have questions about the potential impacts of this operation.

Tip

See also:

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The Advanced Configuration Options section allows you to set MongoDB runtime options for each MongoDB process in your deployment.

To add an option:

  1. Click Add Advanced Options.

  2. Click Select a Startup Option and select the configuration option.

  3. Ops Manager displays a context-sensitive input for configuring an acceptable value for the selected option.

  4. Click Add to add the selected option and its corresponding value to every process of the selected process type in the cluster.

Ops Manager lists each process in the cluster grouped logically. Click the grey arrow to the left of the logical grouping to display its sub-groupings and processes. You can modify the advanced options for each process individually as necessary.

For descriptions of the available Advanced Configuration Options, see Advanced Options for MongoDB Deployments.

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Review the details of the replica set. When ready, click the Save button.

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Otherwise, click Cancel and you can make additional changes.

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