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

Use this document to install Percona Server for MongoDB on RPM-based distributions such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS from Percona repositories.

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 mongod server, default configuration files, and init.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-debugsource	Debug sources for the server

Installing from Percona repositories

Percona repositories are managed using the percona-release tool. So in order to install Percona Server for MongoDB, install percona-release first

Configure Percona repository

1. Install percona-release:

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

   Example of output

   Retrieving https://repo.percona.com/yum/percona-release-latest.noarch.rpm
   Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
   1:percona-release        ########################################### [100%]
   

2. Enable the repository:

   $ sudo percona-release enable psmdb-50 release
   

See also

More information about how to use the percona-release tool

https://www.percona.com/doc/percona-repo-config/index.html

Install the latest version

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

$ sudo yum install percona-server-mongodb

Install a specific version

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-44-release-x86_64
   

2. Install a specific version packages. For example, to install Percona Server for MongoDB 5.0.2-1, run the following command:

   $ sudo yum install percona-server-mongodb-5.0.2-1.el8
   

Running Percona Server for MongoDB

Note

If you are using 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.

Percona Server for MongoDB stores data files in /var/lib/mongodb/ by default. The configuration file is /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:

$ sudo systemctl status mongod

Stopping the service

Stop the service using the following command:

$ sudo systemctl stop mongod

Restarting the service

Restart the service using the following command:

$ sudo systemctl restart mongod

Running after reboot

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

You can enable it using the systemctl utility:

$ sudo systemctl enable mongod