I've been on forums talking with several people for the last few days and no one has been able to give me an answer.

Is there anyway to reconfigure a replica set in the event the primary as well as a majority of the servers are down? For example if data center 1 goes down, a procedure can be run to reconfigure and set a new primary with the remaining servers?

I tried the eval method on the database object and I get this:
"Command '$eval' failed: not master (response:

{ "note" : "from execCommand", "ok" : 0.0, "errmsg" : "not master" }

)"

I also tried this:
var reconfigCommand = new CommandDocument
{
{"replSetReconfig", new BsonDocument{{"configuration", newConfig},

{"force", true}

}}
};

var response = database.RunCommand(reconfigCommand);

And RunCommand throws the following MongoCommandException

Command 'replSetReconfig' failed: replSetReconfig command must be sent to the current replica set primary. (response:

{ "ok" : 0.0, "errmsg" : "replSetReconfig command must be sent to the current replica set primary." }

)

From what I can tell in the documentation, force = true should allow reconfig against a non-primary database.

Any suggestions?