Configure a Windows Service for MongoDB

Steps

On the machine on which you installed MongoDB Community Edition, select the Windows Start button, then navigate to and right-click Command Prompt, and then select Run as administrator.

A command prompt window appears.
On the command prompt window, enter the following:

mkdir c:\data\db

mkdir c:\data\log

Two directories that will be used by APM System Monitoring are created.
Create a configuration (.cfg) file. The file must set systemLog.path. Include additional configuration options as needed. For example, to create a file at C:\data\mongod.cfg that specifies both systemLog.path and storage.dbPath, the file would contain the following text:

systemLog:

destination: file

path: c:\data\log\mongod.log

storage:

dbPath: c:\data\db

Note: In the configuration file, each tab indentation seen in the preceding text should be replaced with two spaces.
On the command prompt window, enter the following:

"C:\Program Files\MongoDB\Server\3.2\bin\mongod.exe" --config "C:\data\mongod.cfg" --install

Note: To use an alternate dbpath, specify the path in the configuration file (e.g., C:\data\mongod.cfg) or on the command line with the --dbpath option.

The MongoDB service is installed.
On the command prompt window, enter the following:

net start MongoDB

The MongoDB service is started, and the Windows service is configured.

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