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This resource requires the Project Automation Admin role.

Base URL: https://{OPSMANAGER-HOST}:{PORT}/api/public/v1.0

GET /groups/{PROJECT-ID}/automationConfig/backupAgentConfig
Name
Type
Necessity
Description
PROJECT-ID
string
Required
Unique 24-hexadecimal digit string that identifies the project that owns the configuration.

The following query parameters are optional:

Name
Type
Necessity
Description
Default
pretty
boolean
Optional
false
envelope
boolean
Optional

Flag that indicates whether or not to wrap the response in an envelope.

Some API clients cannot access the HTTP response headers or status code. To remediate this, set envelope=true in the query.

For endpoints that return one result, the response body includes:

Name
Description
status
HTTP response code
envelope
Expected response body
false

This endpoint doesn't use HTTP request body parameters.

Parameter
Type
Necessity
Description
configOverrides
object
Optional

List of MongoDB Agent settings that you need to change because your backup settings differ from those of the MongoDB Agent. Configure this option when upgrading from legacy agents to the MongoDB Agent.

Setting
Data Type
string
string
string
integer
boolean
string
string
string
string
string
string
string
string
boolean
string
logPath
string
Optional
Absolute file path to which this MongoDB Agent writes its logs. If this is not specified, the log writes to standard error (stderr) on UNIX- and Linux-based systems and to the Event Log on Windows systems.
logRotate
object
Optional
Thresholds after which this MongoDB Agent rotates the backup log.
logRotate
.sizeThresholdMB
integer
Optional
Maximum size, in MB, of a log file before this MongoDB Agent rotates the logs.
logRotate
.timeDurationHrs
integer
Optional
Number of hours after which this MongoDB Agent rotates the log file.
username
string
Optional

MongoDB user in the application database that manages the backup logs.

If you use the API to enable authentication for the MongoDB Agent, set this parameter to mms-automation when executing this endpoint.

curl --user "{publicApiKey}:{privateApiKey}" --digest \
--header "Accept: application/json" \
--include \
--request GET "https://<OpsManagerHost>:<Port>/api/public/v1.0/groups/{PROJECT-ID}/automationConfig/backupAgentConfig?pretty=true" \
--output currentBackupConfig.json
HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized
Content-Type: application/json;charset=ISO-8859-1
Date: {dateInUnixFormat}
WWW-Authenticate: Digest realm="MMS Public API", domain="", nonce="{nonce}", algorithm=MD5, op="auth", stale=false
Content-Length: {requestLengthInBytes}
Connection: keep-alive
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Content-Type: application/json
Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=300
Date: {dateInUnixFormat}
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Length: {requestLengthInBytes}
X-MongoDB-Service-Version: gitHash={gitHash}; versionString={ApplicationVersion}
1{
2 "logPath": "/var/log/mongodb-mms-automation/backup-agent.log",
3 "logPathWindows": "%SystemDrive%\\MMSAutomation\\log\\mongodb-mms-automation\\backup-agent.log",
4 "logRotate": {
5 "sizeThresholdMB": 1000.0,
6 "timeThresholdHrs": 24
7 },
8 "username": "mms-automation"
9}
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