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Add Existing MongoDB Processes to Ops Manager

Ops Manager provides a wizard for adding your existing MongoDB deployments to monitoring and management. The wizard prompts you to install an Automation Agent if none exists, and then prompts you to identify the cluster, the replica set, or the standalone to add. You can choose to add the deployment to Monitoring or to both Monitoring and Automation.

Considerations

Unique Names

Deployments must have unique names within the projects.

Important

Replica set, sharded cluster, and shard names within the same project must be unique. Failure to have unique names for the deployments will result in broken backup snapshots.

MongoDB Configuration Options

Automation does not support all MongoDB options. To review which options are supported, see Supported MongoDB Options for Automation.

TLS

If you enable TLS, the FQDN for the host serving a MongoDB process must match the SAN for the TLS certificate on that host.

Caution

Though you can use one TLS certificate with many SANs or a wildcard TLS certificate on each host, you should not. You should follow RFC 2818, section 3.1: keep the scope of TLS certificates as narrow as possible. This prevents man-in-the-middle attacks.

Preferred Hostnames

If the MongoDB process is accessible only by a specific hostname, FQDN, IPv4 address or IPv6 address, or if you need to specify the hostname to use for hosts with multiple aliases, set up a preferred hostname. For details, see the Preferred Hostnames setting in General Settings.

Restore a Previously Removed Host

If you have not completely removed a host from Ops Manager and want to restore that host, you can reimport the deleted MongoDB process using the Add Monitored Processes to Automation procedure.

If you have completely removed a host from Ops Manager, you need to undelete that host first. To search for a deleted host, you must have the Global Owner role.

To locate and undelete a previously deleted host:

  1. Navigate to the Deployment view.
  2. From the More menu, click Deleted Hosts.
  3. Select the trash icon to undelete the host.

After the host has been undeleted, you can import existing process procedure.

Note

If your host does not appear in the Deleted Hosts list, you should be able to reimport the process immediately.

Authentication

  • When adding to Monitoring:

    If your MongoDB deployment requires authentication, you must provide the necessary credentials for monitoring when adding the deployment to Ops Manager. For information on configuring authentication, see Configure MongoDB Authentication and Authorization.

  • When adding to Automation:

    If the Ops Manager project has MongoDB authentication settings enabled for its deployments, the MongoDB deployment to import must support the projects’s authentication mechanism.

    If either the MongoDB deployment requires authentication or the Ops Manager project has authentication settings enabled, you must add an automation user with the appropriate roles to the MongoDB process in order to perform the import. If the Ops Manager project has authentication settings enabled, add the Ops Manager project’s automation user to the MongoDB process. See Prerequisites.

    Adding a MongoDB Windows Service to Automation

    If you are adding an existing MongoDB process that runs as a Windows Service to Automation, Automation:

    • Stops and disables the existing service
    • Creates and starts a new service

Automation and Updated Security Settings Upon Import

Adding a MongoDB deployment to automation may affect the security settings of the Ops Manager project or the MongoDB deployment or both.

Enables Ops Manager Project Security Setting

If the MongoDB deployment requires authentication but the Ops Manager project does not have authentication settings enabled, upon successful addition of the MongoDB deployment to automation, the project’s security settings will have the security settings of the newly imported deployment.

Note

The import process only enables the Ops Manager project’s security setting if the project’s security setting is currently not enabled. If the project’s security setting is currently enabled, the import process does not disable the project’s security setting or change its enabled authentication mechanism.

Imports MongoDB Users and Roles

Note

The following applies for situations where at least either the MongoDB deployment requires authentication or the Ops Manager project has authentication settings enabled.

If the MongoDB deployment contains users or user-defined roles, you can choose to import these users and roles for Ops Manager to manage. The imported users and roles are Synced to all managed deployments in the Ops Manager project.

If the Enforce Consistent Set value for the Ops Manager project is YES, users and roles not imported are deleted from the MongoDB deployment.

If the Enforce Consistent Set value for the Ops Manager project is No, non-imported users and roles are not managed by Ops Manager project but remain in the MongoDB deployment. To manage these users and roles, you must connect directly to the MongoDB deployment.

If importing users and roles, before you confirm and deploy the changes, you can, from the Authentication & Users and Authentication & Roles screens, remove specific users and roles from being imported by unmanaging these users. For details on unmanaging MongoDB users, see Manage or Unmanage MongoDB Users.

If the imported MongoDB deployment already has mms-backup-agent and mms-monitoring-agent users in its admin database, the import procedure overrides the roles of these users with the roles for mms-backup-agent and mms-monitoring-agent users as set in the Ops Manager project.

Applies to All Deployments in Ops Manager Project

The project’s updated security settings, including all users and roles managed as part of the Ops Manager project, apply to all deployments in the project, including the imported MongoDB deployment.

Ops Manager restarts all deployments in the project with the new setting, including the imported MongoDB deployment. All deployments in the project will use the Ops Manager automation keyfile upon restart.

If the existing deployment or deployments in the project require a different security profile from the imported process, create a new project into which you can import the MongoDB deployment.

Examples of Imported Users

Note

The following applies for situations where at least either the MongoDB deployment requires authentication or the Ops Manager project has authentication settings enabled.

If you choose to import the MongoDB users and custom roles, once Ops Manager project manages the MongoDB deployment, regardless of the value of Enforce Consistent Set:

Enforce Consistent Set Results
Yes or No
Ops Manager project:
  • Authentication is enabled.
  • Manages the imported users and roles.
  • Syncs the new users and roles to all its managed deployments.
The MongoDB deployment:
  • Has access control enabled and requires authentication.
  • All users and roles that the Ops Manager project manages (i.e. has Synced set to Yes ) exist in the MongoDB deployment.

If you choose not to import the users, once Ops Manager project manages the MongoDB deployment:

Enforce Consistent Set Results
Yes
Ops Manager project:
  • Authentication is enabled.
  • Has no changes to its managed users and roles.
The MongoDB deployment:
  • Has access control enabled and requires authentication.
  • The non-imported MongoDB users and roles will be deleted from the MongoDB deployment.
  • All users and roles that the Ops Manager project manages (i.e. has Synced set to Yes ) exist in the MongoDB deployment.
No
Ops Manager project:
  • Authentication is enabled.
  • Has no changes to its security settings, including users and roles.
The MongoDB deployment:
  • Has access control enabled and requires authentication.
  • The non-imported MongoDB users and roles remain in the MongoDB deployment.
  • All users and roles managed by the Ops Manager project (i.e. has Synced set to Yes ) exist in the MongoDB deployment.

Prerequisites

Note

The following prerequisite applies only when adding to Automation.

  • If the Ops Manager project does not have authentication settings enabled, but the MongoDB process requires authentication, add an automation user for the Ops Manager project with the appropriate roles. The import process displays the required roles for the user. The added user becomes the project’s Automation Agent user.

  • If the Ops Manager project has authentication settings enabled, add the Ops Manager project’s Automation Agent user to the MongoDB process. To find the Automation Agent user, click Deployments, then Security, then Users.

  • To find the password for the Ops Manager project’s Automation Agent user, you can use the UI, the API or the configuration backup file:

    Using the UI
    1. Navigate to Deployment, Security, and then Authentication & TLS/SSL

    2. Click Edit Settings.

    3. Click Next until you see the Configure Ops Manager Agents page.

    4. Click Show to the right of the Automation Agent Password field.

      The Automation Agent’s password displays.

    Using the API

    Use the Automation Configuration Resource endpoint:

    curl -u "<username>:<apikey>" --digest -i "<host>/api/public/v1.0/groups/<Group-ID>/automationConfig"
    
    Using the Ops Manager Configuration Backup file

    Open the mmsConfigBackup file in your preferred text editor and find the autoPwd value.

Example

If the Ops Manager project has Username/Password mechanism selected for its authentication settings, add the project’s Ops Manager Automation Agents User mms-automation to the admin database in the MongoDB deployment to import.

db.getSiblingDB("admin").createUser(
   {
     user: "mms-automation",
     pwd: <password>,
     roles: [
       'clusterAdmin',
       'dbAdminAnyDatabase',
       'readWriteAnyDatabase',
       'userAdminAnyDatabase',
       'restore',
       'backup'
     ]
   }
)

Important

If you are adding a sharded cluster, you must create this user through the mongos and on every shard. That is, create the user both as a cluster wide user through mongos as well as a shard local user on each shard.

Add MongoDB Processes

1

Click Deployment.

2

Click Add New and select Existing MongoDB Deployment.

3

Follow the prompts to add the deployment.