Why --audit commands does not work in Mongo Enterprise

Question

I am trying to make destination for my user activity log but every time I type --auditDestination I get errormessage "unrecognized option --auditDestination", can anyone tell me what should I do?

I really need a help with this, if anyone can help with some solution I will be grateful :/

Answer 1

--auditDestination is parameter of mongoD and mongoS, if you try to use it with mongo command, you get error message.

Answer 2

@JoDi, as you said your environment is windows and you want to --auditDestination in 'c:\' .

As per MongoDB BOL Configure Auditing To enable auditing and print audit events to a file in JSON format, specify file for the --auditDestination setting, JSON for the --auditFormat setting, and the output filename for the --auditPath. The --auditPath option accepts either full path name or relative path name. For example, the following enables auditing and records audit events to a file with the relative path name of data/db/auditLog.json:

mongod --dbpath data/db --auditDestination file --auditFormat JSON --auditPath data/db/auditLog.json

As here dbpath is C:\data\db , file is the destination file location & AuditPath is C:\data\db\auditLog.json

You may also specify these options in the configuration file:

storage:
   dbPath: data/db
auditLog:
   destination: file
   format: JSON
   path: data/db/auditLog.json

NOTE Printing audit events to a file in JSON format degrades server performance more than printing to a file in BSON format.