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Installing Percona Server for MongoDB on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS

This document describes how to install Percona Server for MongoDB on RPM-based distributions such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux and compatible derivatives. We gather Telemetry data to understand the use of the software and improve our products.

Note

Percona Server for MongoDB should work on other RPM-based distributions (for example, Amazon Linux AMI and Oracle Linux), but it is tested only on platforms listed on the Percona Software and Platform Lifecycle page.

Package Contents

Package Contains
percona-server-mongodb The mongo shell, import/export tools, other client
utilities, server software, default configuration, and init.d scripts.
percona-server-mongodb-server The mongodserver, default configuration files, andinit.d` scripts
percona-server-mongodb-shell The mongo shell
percona-server-mongodb-mongos The mongos sharded cluster query router
percona-server-mongodb-tools Mongo tools for high-performance MongoDB fork from Percona
percona-server-mongodb-dbg Debug symbols for the server

Procedure

Percona provides the percona-release configuration tool that simplifies operating repositories and enables to install and update both Percona Backup for MongoDB packages and required dependencies smoothly.

Configure Percona repository

  1. Install percona-release:

    $ sudo yum install https://repo.percona.com/yum/percona-release-latest.noarch.rpm

  2. Enable the repository: 

    $ sudo percona-release enable psmdb-50 release

Install Percona Server for MongoDB packages

To install the latest version of Percona Server for MongoDB, use the following command:

$ sudo yum install percona-server-mongodb

To install a specific version of Percona Server for MongoDB, do the following:

  1. List available versions:

    $ sudo yum list percona-server-mongodb --showduplicates

    Sample output:

    Available Packages
percona-server-mongodb.x86_64   5.0.2-1.el8   psmdb-50-release-x86_64
percona-server-mongodb.x86_64   5.0.3-2.el8   psmdb-50-release-x86_64
percona-server-mongodb.x86_64   5.0.4-3.el8   psmdb-50-release-x86_64
percona-server-mongodb.x86_64   5.0.5-4.el8   psmdb-50-release-x86_64
percona-server-mongodb.x86_64   5.0.6-5.el8   psmdb-50-release-x86_64
percona-server-mongodb.x86_64   5.0.7-6.el8   psmdb-50-release-x86_64
percona-server-mongodb.x86_64   5.0.8-7.el8   psmdb-50-release-x86_64
percona-server-mongodb.x86_64   5.0.9-8.el8   psmdb-50-release-x86_64
percona-server-mongodb.x86_64   5.0.10-9.el8  psmdb-50-release-x86_64
percona-server-mongodb.x86_64   5.0.11-10.el8 psmdb-50-release-x86_64
percona-server-mongodb.x86_64   5.0.13-11.el8 psmdb-50-release-x86_64

  2. Install a specific version packages. For example, to install Percona Server for MongoDB 5.0.13-11, run the following command:

    $ sudo yum install percona-server-mongodb-5.0.13-11.el8

Run Percona Server for MongoDB

Note

If you use SELinux in enforcing mode, you must customize your SELinux user policies to allow access to certain /sys and /proc files for OS-level statistics. Also, you must customize directory and port access policies if you are using non-default locations.

Please refer to Configure SELinux section of MongoDB Documentation for policy configuration guidelines.

By default, Percona Server for MongoDB stores data files in /var/lib/mongodb/ and configuration parameters in /etc/mongod.conf.

Starting the service

Percona Server for MongoDB is not started automatically after installation. Start it manually using the following command:

$ sudo systemctl start mongod

Confirming that service is running

Check the service status using the following command: service mongod status

$ sudo systemctl status mongod

Stopping the service

Stop the service using the following command: service mongod stop

$ sudo systemctl stop mongod

Restarting the service

Restart the service using the following command: service mongod restart

$ sudo systemctl restart mongod

Run after reboot

The mongod service is not automatically started after you reboot the system.

For RHEL or CentOS versions 5 and 6, you can use the chkconfig utility to enable auto-start as follows:

$ sudo chkconfig --add mongod

For RHEL or CentOS version 7, you can use the systemctl utility:

$ sudo systemctl enable mongod

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Last update: November 9, 2023
Created: December 8, 2022