robomongo is an awesome GUI clicky tool.
Connect to the DB:
mongo <target>
Get host information:
db.adminCommand({ hostInfo: 1 });
Show users:
db.runCommand({ usersInfo: 1 });
Show roles:
show roles
Show databases:
show dbs
Use a database:
use <db name>
Show tables:
db.getCollectionNames()
// or
show tables
// or
show collections
Get data in a table:
db.<table name>.find()
Get version of mongo:
db.version();
Get json dump of the data
Create export.js with the following:
profileData = db.<collection name>.find();
// for example: db.system.users
while(profileData.hasNext()) {
printjson(profileData.next());
}
Run it like so:
mongo *ip of host*/*db name* export.js > *json file name*.json