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Configure MongoDB Agent for Authentication

MongoDB supports the following authentication mechanisms depending on your MongoDB version:

MongoDB Version	Default Authentication Mechanism
4.0 or later	SCRAM authentication mechanisms with the SHA-256 and SHA-1 hash functions. SCRAM-SHA-1 (RFC 5802) and SCRAM-SHA-256 (RFC 7677) are IETF standards that define best practice methods for implementation of challenge-response mechanisms for authenticating users with passwords.
3.0 to 3.6	SCRAM authentication mechanism with``SHA-1`` hash function.
2.6 or earlier	MongoDB Challenge and Response (MONGODB-CR). MONGODB-CR is a challenge-response mechanism that authenticates users through passwords.

Prerequisites

Configure Deployments to Use Authentication

The MongoDB Agent interacts with the MongoDB databases in your deployment as a MongoDB user would. As a result, you must configure your MongoDB deployment and the MongoDB Agent to support authentication.

You can specify the deployment’s authentication mechanisms when adding the deployment, or you can edit the settings for an existing deployment. At minimum, the deployment must enable the authentication mechanism you want the MongoDB Agent to use. The MongoDB Agent can use any supported authentication mechanism.

Configure the MongoDB Agent for Authentication

The MongoDB Agent can use SCRAM-SHA-1 or SCRAM-SHA-256 to authenticate to hosts that enforce access control.

Note

With Automation, Cloud Manager manages MongoDB Agent authentication for you. To learn more about authentication, see Enable Username and Password Authentication for your Cloud Manager Project.

• Deployments Managed by Automation
• Deployments Not Managed by Automation

When you install the MongoDB Agent with Automation, Cloud Manager creates a user to authenticate on the MongoDB database. Cloud Manager create this MongoDB user (mms-automation) in the admin database with the correct privileges for each MongoDB Agent function.

Configure these credentials in Cloud Manager.

1. Navigate to Deployment arrow right icon Security arrow right icon Edit Settings arrow right icon Edit Credentials.

2. Continue through the modal until you see the Configure Cloud Manager Agents page

3. Add the appropriate credentials:

   Setting	Value
   MongoDB Agent Username	Enter the MongoDB Agent username.
   MongoDB Agent Password	Enter the password for the MongoDB Agent username.

Each MongoDB Agent function uses a different set of MongoDB shell (mongosh) commands to configure a user with the appropriate roles and privileges.

• Backup
• Monitoring

User creation commands vary depending on the version of MongoDB that you use:

• FCV 4.2 or later
• FCV 4.0 or earlier

To back up MongoDB instances running FCV 4.2 and later, create a user in the admin database. Assign this user the roles provided in the following example.

Use the following mongosh command to create the user:

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db.getSiblingDB("admin").createUser(
   {
      user: "<username>",
      pwd: "<password>",
      roles: [ {
        role: "clusterAdmin", db: "admin"
      } ]
   }
)

To learn more about the required access, see Required Access for MongoDB Agent Backup

To back up MongoDB instances running FCV 4.0 or earlier, create a user in the admin database. Assign this user the roles provided in the following example.

Use the following mongosh command to create the user:

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db.getSiblingDB("admin").createUser(
  {
    user: "<username>",
    pwd: "<password>",
    roles: [ {
      role: "backup", db: "admin"
    } ]
  }
)

To learn more about the required access, see Required Access for MongoDB Agent Backup

Configure Backup Credentials

After you create the user for the Backup function, add the credentials to the Backup Settings.

1. Navigate to Backup arrow right icon <backup-deployment> arrow right icon ellipsis icon arrow right icon Edit Credentials.

2. Click Credentials.

3. Add the appropriate credentials:

   Setting	Value
   Backup Username	Enter the Backup username.
   Backup Password	Enter the password for the Backup username.

To monitor MongoDB 4.0 or later instances that use SCRAM authentication, add a user to the admin database in MongoDB. Assign this user the roles provided in the following example.

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db.getSiblingDB("admin").createUser(
   {
      user: "<username>",
      pwd: "<password>",
      roles: [ {
        role: "clusterMonitor", db: "admin"
      } ]
   }
)

To learn what roles this function requires, see Monitoring settings.

Configure Monitoring Credentials

After you create the user for the Monitoring function, add the credentials to the Monitoring Settings.

1. Navigate to Deployment arrow right icon <deployment> arrow right icon ellipsis icon arrow right icon Monitoring Settings.

2. Click Credentials.

3. Add the appropriate credentials:

   Setting	Value
   Monitoring Username	Enter the Monitoring username.
   Monitoring Password	Enter the password for the Monitoring username.

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