Best Practices for MongoDB Security
When it comes to managing database systems, one crucial aspect is database security. The failure to lay a good foundation for security for any database system may result in a data breach whereby a...
View ArticleClusterControl now supports SQL Server 2019
We are pleased to announce the latest release of ClusterControl, version 1.9.1. This version of ClusterControl comes with support for SQL Server 2019 and MongoDB versions 4.4 and 5.0, as well as more...
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Proactive MongoDB Monitoring (Developer Studio/Advisors angle)
ClusterControl has many metrics related to the database, replication, and also operating system. You can also monitor the process that runs inside the database through the opscounter in the Overview.If...
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ClusterControl - Advanced Backup Management - MongoDB
Disaster recovery does not complete without a proper backup system. When something bad happens, the data could be restored by using the backup preferably with the latest one. We might want to avoid...
View ArticleMost Popular NoSQL Databases Supported by ClusterControl
NoSQL ("not only SQL") is an approach to database design that enables the storage and querying of data outside the traditional structures found in relational databases. It was created to primarily deal...
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ClusterControl runtime configuration options
When you install ClusterControl, it has a default configuration that maybe doesn’t fit your requirements so probably you will need to customize this installation. For this, you can modify the...
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How to Configure AppArmor for MongoDB Replica Sets?
There are many sections and layers of security if we are talking about the hardening of databases. It starts from the encryption of the underlying storage disk, database access privileges,...
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How to configure SELinux for MongoDB Replica Sets
By 2025, the world will store approximately 200 zettabytes of data. That data will be stored either in public, private, on-premises or cloud storage, PCs, laptops, smartphones and also...
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Managing Multiple Database Technologies with ClusterControl
Managing multiple open source database technologies in any environment can be a daunting task, especially if you have fewer resources. The scenario could be worse if deployment, monitoring and other...
View ArticleSix Critical Components of Successful Data Governance
What is Data Governance?For large organizations or companies that are into data management, data governance possesses the key to success in managing, controlling, or governing the data that has been...
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Integrating ClusterControl with SNMP : Part Two
This blog post is a continuation of the previous part 1, where we have covered the basics of SNMP integration with ClusterControl.In this blog post, we are going to focus on SNMP traps and alerting....
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Integrating ClusterControl with SNMP - A Proof of Concept : Part One
ClusterControl comes with a number of distinctive alerts (or alarms) which you won't find in other monitoring systems. ClusterControl understands a database cluster topology as a whole - all database...
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How to Manage Large Databases Effectively
One of the biggest concerns when dealing with and managing databases is its data and size complexity. Often, organizations get concerned about how to deal with growth and manage growth impact because...
View ArticleMongoDB Insecurity Levels and How to Avoid Them
Most database management systems have several techniques of securing their data from an outsider or an unauthorized person or application. The techniques prevent your data from being read or copied...
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Automate Database Health Check
Ensuring the database is healthy is one of the critical and important things that a database administrator must do. If we neglect the maintenance of the database, there is a higher probability that we...
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MongoDB Database Deployment Automation
Organizations are making use of infrastructure in the cloud because it offers speed, flexibility, and scalability. You can imagine if we can spin up a new database instance with just a click, and it...
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Automate Database Configuration Check
Many system administrators commonly overlook the importance of ongoing database configuration tuning. Configuration options are often being configured or tuned once, during the installation stage, and...
View ArticleHow to use Encryption to Protect MongoDB data
With many kinds of data stored in the database, sometimes we may be dealing with confidential data, which might include credit card data, financial record, personal information. Those PII (Personal...
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How to Get Started With Database Automation
Database automation helps make complex and time consuming tasks simple and fast. The tasks most commonly and easily identified for automation are those that are time-consuming yet repetitive. These...
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Enforcing Role-Based Access Controls with ClusterControl
In Severalnines’ recent release of ClusterControl version 1.8.2 we have introduced a lot of sophisticated features and changes. One of the important features is the newly improved User Management...
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