The following is preventing us from creating automated test scripts to validate bulk document imports. The mongo shell output generated by mongoimport appears to not be parseable in the remote host shell so the error condition cannot be captured.

The mongoimport utility should return an error code rather than indicate success when this condition occurs.

[ec2-user@ip-172-31-28-233 bin]$ mongoimport --port 27017 --db test --collection grades --jsonArray --file ../import/records.json
2015-03-27T14:35:55.126+0000 connected to: localhost:27017
2015-03-27T14:35:55.149+0000 error inserting documents: could not contact primary for replica set rs7
2015-03-27T14:35:55.149+0000 imported 0 documents
[ec2-user@ip-172-31-28-233 bin]$ echo $?
0
[ec2-user@ip-172-31-28-233 bin]$