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Documentation enhancement #15

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Mentioning that admin database is mandatory
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A note mon mongodb roles
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Expand Up @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ The plugin has some configuration options even though none are mandatory. This i
* Password - the password for authentication
* Host - hostname or IP address of the mongodb server defaults to 127.0.0.1
* Port - the port of the mongodb server defaults to 27017
* Database - the databases you want to monitor defaults to "admin". You can provide more than one database.
* Database - the databases you want to monitor defaults to "admin". You can provide more than one database. Note that the first database _must_ be "admin", as it is used to perform a serverStatus()

The following is an example Collectd configuration for this plugin:

Expand All @@ -39,3 +39,13 @@ The following is an example Collectd configuration for this plugin:
</Plugin>

The data-sets in types.db need to be added to the types.db file given by the collectd.conf TypesDB directive. See the types.db(5) man page for more information.

If you're monitoring a secured MongoDB deployment, declaring a user with minimal read-only roles is a good practice, such as :


db.createUser( {
user: "collectd",
pwd: "collectd",
roles: [ { role: "readAnyDatabase", db: "admin" }, { role: "clusterMonitor", db: "admin" } ]
});