Connect to MongoDB Search Community

Prerequisites

Before you start, you must have the following prerequisites:

• MongoDB Community and MongoDB Search Community

  Note

  Make sure that both the mongod and mongot processes are running.

• Valid username and password to connect

  If you haven't already created a user on your replica set, run the following commands in your terminal to create a user:

  1. Connect to replica set by using mongosh.

     mongosh

  2. Run the following commands to create a mongotUser user in the admin database with the searchCoordinator role. MongoDB uses the mongotUser user to authenticate mongot with mongod.

     use admin
     db.createUser( {
      user: "mongotUser",
      pwd: passwordPrompt(),
         roles: [ { role: "searchCoordinator", db: "admin" } ]
     } )

     Users with the searchCoordinator role have readAnyDatabase privileges and write permissions on the __mdb_internal_search database.

     Important

     Do not modify the contents of the __mdb_internal_search database.

• Connection string to the replica set

  The connection string for a replica set includes all member nodes. Therefore, you need the replica set name and the hostnames or IP addresses and ports of all the replica set members to connect.

Connect to Your Replica Set

Use your replica set's connection string to connect to your replica set with your preferred client. To ensure that you configured mongot and mongod correctly, you can run a command that retrieves search indexes.