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We are releasing this soon. This is configured via a button toggle on the settings page.
If enabled, the MMS servers will attempt to login to your database servers from our central datacenter. This is a safety test that tries to detect if your firewall is missing or misconfigured. The central MMS servers will attempt to connect to your server by using the primary (i.e., non-canonical) host id you see on your "Hosts" page in MMS. Note: If you are running intrusion detection software and this is enabled, it may set off some alerts in your system.
Note: This is not a replacement for proper security audits, it is a high level check to try and assist people from making mistakes.
It is important that this is described as a weak security check. If someone is hacked, I don't want them to come to 10gen and say, "we thought we were covered".
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