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shardingState
¶ shardingState
is an admin command that reports ifmongod
is a member of a sharded cluster.shardingState
has the following prototype form:To run the command, you must run against the
admin
database. Seedb.adminCommand()
.
Behavior¶
For shardingState
to detect that a mongod
is a
member of a sharded cluster, the mongod
must satisfy the
following conditions:
- the
mongod
is a primary member of a replica set, and - the
mongod
instance is a member of a sharded cluster.
If shardingState
detects that a mongod
is a
member of a sharded cluster, shardingState
returns a
document that resembles the following prototype:
Otherwise, shardingState
will return the following document:
The response from shardingState
when used with a
config server is:
Note
mongos
instances do not provide the
shardingState
.
Warning
This command obtains a write lock on the affected database and will block other operations until it has completed; however, the operation is typically short lived.