tMongoDBConnection Standard properties

DB Version

List of the database versions.

Select this option to establish a connection using a MongoDB Atlas URI. Enter the URI in the field to the right. See Connection String URI Format for related information.

This option is available when you select MongoDB 4.4.X and later from the DB Version drop-down list.

Use replica set address

Select this check box to show the Replica address table.

In the Replica address table, you can define multiple MongoDB database servers for failover.

Server and Port

IP address and listening port of the database server.

Available when the Use replica set address check box is not selected.

Database

Name of the database.

Use SSL connection (Configure the SSL authentication in tSetKeystore or in Studio preferences)

Select this check box to enable the SSL or TLS encrypted connection.

Note that the SSL connection is available only for the version 2.4 + of MongoDB.

Required authentication

Select this check box to enable the database authentication.

Among the mechanisms listed on the Authentication mechanism drop-down list, the NEGOTIATE one is recommended if you are not using Kerberos, because it automatically select the authentication mechanism the most adapted to the MongoDB version you are using.

Because the SCRAM-SHA-256 authentication mechanism is only supported by MongoDB 4.x and later versions, SCRAM-SHA-256 SASL option is available only when MongoDB 4.4.X and later is selected from the DB Version drop-down list.

For details about the other mechanisms in this list, see MongoDB Authentication from the MongoDB documentation.

Set Authentication database

If the username to be used to connect to MongoDB has been created in a specific Authentication database of MongoDB, select this check box to enter the name of this Authentication database in the Authentication database field that is displayed.

For further information about the MongoDB Authentication database, see User Authentication database.

Username and Password

DB user authentication data.

To enter the password, click the [...] button next to the password field, enter the password in double quotes in the pop-up dialog box, and click OK to save the settings.

Available when the Required authentication check box is selected.

If the security system you have selected from the Authentication mechanism drop-down list is Kerberos, you need to enter the User principal, the Realm and the KDC server fields instead of the Username and the Password fields.

tStatCatcher Statistics

Select this check box to collect the log data at a component level.

No query timeout

Select this check box to prevent MongoDB servers from stopping idle cursors at the end of 10-minute inactivity of these cursors. In this situation, an idle cursor will stay open until either the results of this cursor are exhausted or you manually close it using the cursor.close() method.

A cursor for MongoDB is a pointer to the result set of a query. By default, that is to say, with this check box being clear, a MongoDB server automatically stops idle cursors after a given inactivity period to avoid excess memory use. For further information about MongoDB cursors, see https://docs.mongodb.org/manual/core/cursors/.

This parameter is only available when you select MongoDB 3.5.x from the DB version drop-down list in the Basic settings tab.

Apply optional attributes

Select this option to set and apply optional attributes for the connection to be established.

In the Optional attributes table, click the plus button on the bottom to add a row, select the desired attribute from the drop-down list in the Name column, and set a value for the attribute in the Value column.

Global Variables

ERROR_MESSAGE: the error message generated by the component when an error occurs. This is an After variable and it returns a string. This variable functions only if the Die on error check box is cleared, if the component has this check box.

A Flow variable functions during the execution of a component while an After variable functions after the execution of the component.

To fill up a field or expression with a variable, press Ctrl+Space to access the variable list and choose the variable to use from it.

For more information about variables, see Using contexts and variables.

Usage rule

This component is generally used with other MongoDB components, particularly tMongoClose.