Sitecore XP1 On Azure - Create Mongo DB Databases For xDB Features

Create an account with www.mlab.com and create the 4 databases given below.

  • Analyticsdb
  • tracking_live
  • tracking_history
  • tracking_contact

Please follow the same instructions to create the rest of the three databases.

Let’s start the process by clicking Create new button, as shown below.

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Click Create new button and you will be taken to Create new deployment step, where you choose the following.

  • Choose Amazon Web Services as your Cloud provider and Single-node option in the plan, as shown below.

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  • Choose sandbox in the Standard Line section, as shown below.

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  • Provide the database name. I have provided anayticsdb. You need to repeat the process for the rest of the three databases.

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Once you provide all the details, click Create new MongoDB deployment button. After few seconds, the database will be created, as shown below.

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Once you create the database, you need to create, assign and use to access the databases. Click on the database to navigate to the page given below.

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Choose Users tab and click Add database user button, which opens the popup, as shown below.

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Please provide the username, password and click Create button to create the user. As shown below, the user is created and assigned successfully.

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Once you create all the four databases, your home page would look something, as shown below.

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After successfully creating all the 4 databases, you need to collect the connection strings of all those databases, as shown below.

We will be using these connections in ARM template later.