MongoDB in FreeNAS jail

This posts describes steps I took to get MongoDB running inside of a jail on my FreeNAS 9.1.1 setup. All commands issued from @freenas are from the main console, and @homeauto_database are from inside of the jail. This step provided me with a fully functional persistence backend for OpenHAB.

1. Create port jail via FreeNAS UI
2. Configure Jail

   [root@freenas]$ jls
      JID  IP Address      Hostname                      Path
       12  -               homeauto_database             /mnt/mainsafe/jails/homeauto_database
   [root@freenas]$ jexec 12 /bin/tcsh
   [root@homeauto_database]$ portsnap fetch extract
   [root@homeauto_database]$ cd /usr/ports/databases/mongodb/
   [root@homeauto_database]$ make install

3. Fill in any prompts that you get (I’ve used default settings for all)
4. Create mount-points via FreeNAS UI to expose directories you like
5. Make mongodb start up at boot

   [root@homeauto_database]$ vi /etc/rc.conf
   # add at the bottom
   mongod_enable=“YES”

6. Start MongoDB for the first time

   [root@homeauto_database]$ /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mongod start

7. Check if the process is listening

   [root@homeauto_database]$ netstat -a | egrep 'Proto|LISTEN'
   Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address          Foreign Address        (state)
   tcp4       0      0 *.28017                *.*                    LISTEN
   tcp4       0      0 *.27017                *.*                    LISTEN
   tcp4       0      0 *.ssh                  *.*                    LISTEN
   tcp6       0      0 *.ssh                  *.*                    LISTEN

   We can see that mongodb is listening!
8. Get IP address of the jail

   [root@homeauto_database]$ ifconfig
   ...
   epair11b: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
           options=8<VLAN_MTU>
           ether 02:e7:61:00:13:0b
           inet 192.168.2.118 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.2.255
   ...

9. Try to connect via UMongo – https://github.com/agirbal/umongo/downloads
   (you may need to enable execution of programs from unidentified developers on osx 10.9 or later)

That’s it! You should now have a database running on your FreeNAS server.