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mongocli config

Configure and manage your user profiles.

You can define the settings that the MongoDB CLI uses to interact with MongoDB services. All settings are optional. You can specify settings individually by running: $ mongocli config set --help You can also use environment variables (MCLI_*) when running the tool. To find out more, see the documentation: https://docs.mongodb.com/mongocli/stable/configure/environment-variables/.

Command Syntax
mongocli config [options]
Name
Type
Required
Description

-h, --help

false

help for config

--service

string

false

Type of MongoDB service. Valid values are cloud-manager or ops-manager. This value defaults to "cloud-manager".

Name
Type
Required
Description

-P, --profile

string

false

Name of the profile to use from your configuration file. To learn about profiles for MongoCLI, see https://dochub.mongodb.org/core/atlas-cli-configuration-file.

#
# Configure a profile to interact with Atlas:
mongocli config
# Configure a profile to interact with Atlas for Government:
mongocli config --service cloudgov
# Configure a profile to interact with Cloud Manager:
mongocli config --service cloud-manager
# Configure a profile to interact with Ops Manager:
mongocli config --service ops-manager