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Staging Requirements

O/S User / Privileges
  • Regular o/s user with primary group as mongod.
  • Execute access on mongosh/mongod binaries
  • mongosh and mongod binaries to be in same folder [ if required create softlink ]
  • Empty folder on host to hold delphix toolkit [ approximate 2GB free space ]
  • Empty folder on host to mount nfs filesystem. This is just an empty folder with no space requirements and act as base folder for nfs mounts.
  • Access to source instance backup file(s) from Staging host logged as delphix user (applicable for mongo ops mgr / offline mongodump use case).
  • Please ensure any login banners similar to the one in the image below must be disabled on the staging host. Screenshot
  • sudo privileges for mount, umount. See sample below assuming delphix_os is used as delphix user. 
Defaults:delphix_os !requiretty
delphix_os ALL=NOPASSWD: \
/bin/mount, /bin/umount