Yep, we have updated the open source project PyMongo-Frisk (0.0.4) to now support MongoDB Replica Sets! Our library extends the PyMongo Connection class and adds an additional method called “check_health()”. This method when called returns who is the master, a list of all slave nodes, verifies read and write connectivity with the master, and finally verifies it can read from ALL slaves in the Replica Set. The intended usage for this connection class extension would be an internal monitoring page that is pinged regularly by an automated monitor and sets off an alarm if anything fails.
We created this project because we wanted to ensure that our app server had the ability to reach all failover slave nodes. We did not want to wait until a failure of the master occurred to find out the app server could not reach one of our slaves!
To use our extension of the connection class:
from pymongo_frisk import FriskConnection as Connection connection = Connection(['host1','host2','host3']) results = connection.check_health()
When called the method returns a dictionary containing info about the health of ALL nodes in a Replica Set:
{'db_master_host': 'host1:27017',
'db_slave_hosts': ['host2:27018','host3:27019'],
'db_master_can_write': True,
'db_master_can_read': True,
'db_slaves_can_read': [('host2',True),('host3',True)] }
Note, the library still supports Replica Pairs using authentication. We have moved on to using version 1.6+ of MongoDB, so we decided to make the jump recently from Replica Pairs to Replica Sets. Replica Pairs will be removed in MongoDB version 1.8.
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