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MongoDB ships with a web-based administrative tool. You can see this tool by going to http://localhost:28017/

You can see a bunch of stuff on the administrative tool screen. here is a partial image.

There are a bunch of links that you can click as well. If you click on any of the links on top

List all commands | Replica set status</p> <p>Commands: buildInfo cursorInfo features hostInfo isMaster listDatabases replSetGetStatus serverStatus top

You get the following message

REST is not enabled.  use --rest to turn on.
check that port 28017 is secured for the network too.

So here is how you can fix that, open the config file mongod.cfg

In my case, I have the following there, yours will look different

logpath=C:NoSQLmongodblogmongo.log 
dbpath=C:NoSQLmongodbdata

Add the line rest=true at the bottom, so that it becomes

logpath=C:NoSQLmongodblogmongo.log 
dbpath=C:NoSQLmongodbdata
rest=true

Here is what it looks like when opened in notepad.

Save it, restart the MongoDB service. If you want to learn how to have MongoDB run as a service on Windows, take a look at Creating MongoDB as a service on Windows 8, the process should be the same for Windows 7

If you click on List all commands you will see a list of all the commands. Here is an image of a partial list

Scroll down to hostinfo and click on it you will see the following output

{ "system" : { "currentTime" : { "$date" : "Sun Feb 24 09:43:31 2013" },
    "hostname" : "Denis",
    "cpuAddrSize" : 64,
    "memSizeMB" : 4095,
    "numCores" : 2,
    "cpuArch" : "x86_64",
    "numaEnabled" : false },
  "os" : { "type" : "Windows",
    "name" : "Microsoft Windows 8",
    "version" : "6.2 (build 9200)" },
  "extra" : { "pageSize" : 4096 } }

You can now bookmark some of the most used commands, hostinfo for example is http://localhost:28017/hostInfo?text=1

Go ahead and play around with the tool, check out all the links and also explore some of the commands that are listed

That is all for this post, if you are interested in my other MongoDB posts, you can find them here:

Install MongoDB as a Windows Service

UPSERTs with MongoDB

How to sort results in MongoDB

Indexes in MongoDB: A quick overview

Multidocument updates with MongoDB

MongoDB: How to include and exclude the fields you want in results

MongoDB: How to limit results and how to page through results

MongoDB: How to backup and restore databases

MongoDB: How to restore collections