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replSetGetConfig

New in version 3.0.0.

Definition

replSetGetConfig

Returns a document that describes the current configuration of the replica set. To invoke the command directly, use the following operation:

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db.runCommand( { replSetGetConfig: 1 } );

In the mongo shell, you can access the data provided by replSetGetConfig using the rs.conf() method, as in the following:

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rs.conf();

Output Example

The following document provides a representation of a replica set configuration document. The configuration of your replica set may include only a subset of these settings:

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{
  _id: <string>,
  version: <int>,
  members: [
    {
      _id: <int>,
      host: <string>,
      arbiterOnly: <boolean>,
      buildIndexes: <boolean>,
      hidden: <boolean>,
      priority: <number>,
      tags: <document>,
      slaveDelay: <int>,
      votes: <number>
    },
    ...
  ],
  settings: {
    getLastErrorDefaults : <document>,
    chainingAllowed : <boolean>,
    getLastErrorModes : <document>,
    heartbeatTimeoutSecs: <int>
  }
}

Replica Set Configuration Fields

replSetGetConfig._id

Type: string

The name of the replica set. Once set, you cannot change the name of a replica set.

_id must be identical to the replication.replSetName or the value of –replSet specified to mongod on the command line.

See

replSetName or --replSet for information on setting the replica set name.

replSetGetConfig.version

An incrementing number used to distinguish revisions of the replica set configuration object from previous iterations of the configuration.

members

replSetGetConfig.members

Type: array

An array of member configuration documents, one for each member of the replica set. The members array is a zero-indexed array.

Each member-specific configuration document can contain the following fields:

replSetGetConfig.members[n]._id

Type: integer

A numeric identifier of every member in the replica set. Once set, you cannot change the _id of a member.

Note

When updating the replica configuration object, access the replica set members in the members array with the array index. The array index begins with 0. Do not confuse this index value with the value of the _id field in each document in the members array.

replSetGetConfig.members[n].host

Type: string

The hostname and, if specified, the port number, of the set member.

The hostname name must be resolvable for every host in the replica set.

Warning

host cannot hold a value that resolves to localhost or the local interface unless all members of the set are on hosts that resolve to localhost.

replSetGetConfig.members[n].arbiterOnly

Optional.

Type: boolean

Default: false

A boolean that identifies an arbiter. A value of true indicates that the member is an arbiter.

When using the rs.addArb() method to add an arbiter, the method automatically sets arbiterOnly to true for the added member.

replSetGetConfig.members[n].buildIndexes

Optional.

Type: boolean

Default: true

A boolean that indicates whether the mongod builds indexes on this member. You can only set this value when adding a member to a replica set. You cannot change buildIndexes field after the member has been added to the set. To add a member, see rs.add() and rs.reconfig().

Do not set to false for mongod instances that receive queries from clients.

Setting buildIndexes to false may be useful if all the following conditions are true:

• you are only using this instance to perform backups using mongodump, and
• this member will receive no queries, and
• index creation and maintenance overburdens the host system.

Even if set to false, secondaries will build indexes on the _id field in order to facilitate operations required for replication.

Warning

If you set buildIndexes to false, you must also set priority to 0. If priority is not 0, MongoDB will return an error when attempting to add a member with buildIndexes equal to false.

To ensure the member receives no queries, you should make all instances that do not build indexes hidden.

Other secondaries cannot replicate from a member where buildIndexes is false.

replSetGetConfig.members[n].hidden

Optional.

Type: boolean

Default: false

When this value is true, the replica set hides this instance and does not include the member in the output of db.isMaster() or isMaster. This prevents read operations (i.e. queries) from ever reaching this host by way of secondary read preference.

See also

Hidden Replica Set Members

replSetGetConfig.members[n].priority

Optional.

Type: Number, between 0 and 1000.

Default: 1.0

A number that indicates the relative eligibility of a member to become a primary.

Specify higher values to make a member more eligible to become primary, and lower values to make the member less eligible. Priorities are only used in comparison to each other. Members of the set will veto election requests from members when another eligible member has a higher priority value. Changing the balance of priority in a replica set will trigger an election.

A priority of 0 makes it impossible for a member to become primary.

See also

Replica Set Elections.

replSetGetConfig.members[n].tags

Optional.

Type: document

Default: none

A tag set document containing mappings of arbitrary keys and values. These documents describe replica set members in order to customize write concern and read preference and thereby allow configurable data center awareness.

This field is only present if there are tags assigned to the member. See Configure Replica Set Tag Sets for more information.

Use tags to configure write concerns in conjunction with getLastErrorModes and getLastErrorDefaults.

Important

In tag sets, all tag values must be strings.

For more information on configuring tag sets for read preference and write concern, see Configure Replica Set Tag Sets.

replSetGetConfig.members[n].slaveDelay

Optional.

Type: integer

Default: 0

The number of seconds “behind” the primary that this replica set member should “lag”.

Use this option to create delayed members. Delayed members maintain a copy of the data that reflects the state of the data at some time in the past.

See also

Delayed Replica Set Members

replSetGetConfig.members[n].votes

Optional.

Type: integer

Default: 1

The number of votes a server will cast in a replica set election. The number of votes each member has is either 1 or 0, and arbiters always have exactly 1 vote.

A replica set can have up to 50 members but only 7 voting members. If you need more than 7 members in one replica set, set votes to 0 for the additional non-voting members.

Changed in version 3.0.0: Members cannot have votes greater than 1. For details, see Replica Set Configuration Validation.

settings

replSetGetConfig.settings

Optional.

Type: document

A document that contains configuration options that apply to the whole replica set.

The settings document contain the following fields:

replSetGetConfig.settings.chainingAllowed

Optional.

Type: boolean

Default: true

When chainingAllowed is true, the replica set allows secondary members to replicate from other secondary members. When chainingAllowed is false, secondaries can replicate only from the primary.

See also

Manage Chained Replication

replSetGetConfig.settings.getLastErrorDefaults

Optional.

Type: document

A document that specifies the write concern for the replica set. The replica set will use this write concern only when write operations or getLastError specify no other write concern.

If getLastErrorDefaults is not set, the default write concern for the replica set only requires confirmation from the primary.

replSetGetConfig.settings.getLastErrorModes

Optional.

Type: document

A document used to define an extended write concern through the use of tags. The extended write concern can provide data-center awareness.

For example, the following document defines an extended write concern named eastCoast and associates with a write to a member that has the east tag.

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{ getLastErrorModes: { eastCoast: { "east": 1 } } }

Write operations to the replica set can use the extended write concern, e.g. { w: "eastCoast" }.

See Configure Replica Set Tag Sets for more information and example.

replSetGetConfig.settings.heartbeatTimeoutSecs

Optional.

Type: int

Default: 10

Number of seconds that the replica set members wait for a successful heartbeat from each other. If a member does not respond in time, other members mark the delinquent member as inaccessible.

See also

rs.conf(), rs.reconfig()

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