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• Use a local MongoDb instance. You can install it on your computer or anywhere. Go to the MongoDb documentation.
• Use the Cloud MongoDb service: Atlas.

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Required information

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• Hostname: the mongodb cluster instance hostname (cluster-shard-00-00-w9pyz.mongodb.net for example if you use)
• Port number: the port number which the mongodb receives connection on (27017 with Cloud Atlas)
• Database Name: the name of the database where niagara will create documents.
• Database username and password: the database credentials (note: this user needs read/write/create/drop collections permissions in this database).
• (Optional) Replica Set option Activated: to be able to send messages from mongodb back to niagara devices/points.

Please gather and note those information, we will need them later.

Next Step

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Step 2 1 Set up the MongoDb connector for devices, points and referencesa MongoDb database