community.mongodb.mongodb_info – Gather information about MongoDB instance.

Note

This plugin is part of the community.mongodb collection (version 1.2.1).

To install it use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.mongodb.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.mongodb.mongodb_info.

New in version 1.0.0: of community.mongodb

Synopsis

• Gather information about MongoDB instance.

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

• pymongo

Parameters

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Comments
auth_mechanism string	Choices: SCRAM-SHA-256 SCRAM-SHA-1 MONGODB-X509 GSSAPI PLAIN	Authentication type.
connection_options list / elements=raw		Additional connection options. Supply as a list of dicts or strings containing key value pairs seperated with '='.
filter list / elements=string		Limit the collected information by comma separated string or YAML list. Allowable values are general, databases, total_size, parameters, users, roles. By default, collects all subsets. You can use '!' before value (for example, !users) to exclude it from the information. If you pass including and excluding values to the filter, for example, filter=!general,users, the excluding values, !general in this case, will be ignored.
login_database string	Default: "admin"	The database where login credentials are stored.
login_host string	Default: "localhost"	The host running MongoDB instance to login to.
login_password string		The password used to authenticate with. Required when login_user is specified.
login_port integer	Default: 27017	The MongoDB server port to login to.
login_user string		The MongoDB user to login with. Required when login_password is specified.
ssl boolean	Choices: no ← yes	Whether to use an SSL connection when connecting to the database.
ssl_ca_certs string		The ssl_ca_certs option takes a path to a CA file.
ssl_cert_reqs string	Choices: CERT_NONE CERT_OPTIONAL CERT_REQUIRED ←	Specifies whether a certificate is required from the other side of the connection, and whether it will be validated if provided.
ssl_certfile string		Present a client certificate using the ssl_certfile option.
ssl_crlfile string		The ssl_crlfile option takes a path to a CRL file.
ssl_keyfile string		Private key for the client certificate.
ssl_pem_passphrase string		Passphrase to decrypt encrypted private keys.

Notes

Note

• Requires the pymongo Python package on the remote host, version 2.4.2+.

Examples

- name: Gather all supported information
  community.mongodb.mongodb_info:
    login_user: admin
    login_password: secret
  register: result

- name: Show gathered info
  debug:
    msg: '{{ result }}'

- name: Gather only information about databases and their total size
  community.mongodb.mongodb_info:
    login_user: admin
    login_password: secret
    filter: databases, total_size

- name: Gather all information except parameters
  community.mongodb.mongodb_info:
    login_user: admin
    login_password: secret
    filter: '!parameters'

Return Values

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Key	Returned	Description
databases dictionary	always	Database information. Sample: {'admin': {'empty': False, 'sizeOnDisk': 245760}, 'config': {'empty': False, 'sizeOnDisk': 110592}}
general dictionary	always	General instance information. Sample: {'allocator': 'tcmalloc', 'bits': 64, 'maxBsonObjectSize': 16777216, 'storageEngines': ['biggie'], 'version': '4.2.3'}
parameters dictionary	always	Server parameters information. Sample: {'maxOplogTruncationPointsAfterStartup': 100, 'maxOplogTruncationPointsDuringStartup': 100, 'maxSessions': 1000000}
roles dictionary	always	Role information. Sample: {'db': {'restore': {'inheritedRoles': [], 'isBuiltin': True, 'roles': []}}}
total_size integer	always	Total size of all databases in bytes. Sample: 397312
users dictionary	always	User information. Sample: {'db': {'new_user': {'_id': 'config.new_user', 'mechanisms': ['SCRAM-SHA-1', 'SCRAM-SHA-256'], 'roles': []}}}

Authors

• Andrew Klychkov (@Andersson007)