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Install MongoDB Enterprise on Amazon Linux AMI¶
Overview¶
Use this tutorial to install MongoDB Enterprise on Amazon Linux AMI. MongoDB Enterprise is available on select platforms and contains support for several features related to security and monitoring.
This installation guide only supports 64-bit systems. See Platform Support for details.
Prerequisites¶
To install all of MongoDB’s dependencies, run the following command:
Install MongoDB Enterprise¶
Note
The Enterprise packages include an example SNMP configuration file
named mongod.conf
. This file is not a MongoDB configuration file.
Download and install the MongoDB Enterprise packages.¶
After you have installed the required prerequisite packages, download
and install the MongoDB Enterprise packages from
https://mongodb.com/download/. The MongoDB
binaries are located in the bin/
directory of the archive. To download
and install, use the following sequence of commands.
Ensure the location of the MongoDB binaries is included in the PATH
variable.¶
Once you have copied the MongoDB binaries to their target location,
ensure that the location is included in your PATH
variable. If it is
not, either include it or create symbolic links from the binaries to a
directory that is included.
Run MongoDB Enterprise¶
The MongoDB instance stores its data files in /data/db
and its log files in /var/log/mongodb
by default,
and runs using the mongod
user account. You can specify alternate log and data file
directories in /etc/mongod.conf
. See systemLog.path
and storage.dbPath
for additional information.
If you change the user that runs the MongoDB process, you
must modify the access control rights to the /data/db
and
/var/log/mongodb
directories to give this user access to these
directories.
Create the data directory.¶
Before you start MongoDB for the first time, create the directory to
which the mongod
process will write data. By default, the
mongod
process uses the /data/db
directory. If you create
a directory other than this one, you must specify that directory in the
dbpath
option when starting the mongod
process
later in this procedure.
The following example command creates the default /data/db
directory:
Run MongoDB.¶
To run MongoDB, run the mongod
process at the system prompt.
If necessary, specify the path of the mongod
or the data
directory. See the following examples.
Run without specifying paths¶
If your system PATH
variable includes the location of the
mongod
binary and if you use the default data directory
(i.e., /data/db
), simply enter mongod
at the system prompt:
Begin using MongoDB.¶
To help you start using MongoDB, MongoDB provides Getting Started Guides in various driver editions. See Getting Started for the available editions.
Before deploying MongoDB in a production environment, consider the Production Notes document.
Later, to stop MongoDB, press Control+C
in the terminal where the
mongod
instance is running.