MongoDB Recipes: Disable replica set chaining

By default MongoDB allows replica set chaining. That means it allows a secondary member to sync from another secondary. Suppose we want our secondaries only to sync from the primary not from any other secondary. In that case we can disable replica set chaining.

• Save replica set configuration in a variable:
  repl1:PRIMARY> cfg = rs.conf()

• If settings sub-document is not present in the config, then add it:
  repl1:PRIMARY> cfg.settings = {}
• Set the chainingAllowed property to false from default value true in the cfg variable
  repl1:PRIMARY> cfg.settings.chainingAllowed = false
• Set the new configuration from cfg variable
  repl1:PRIMARY> rs.reconfig(cfg)
• Check the new settings:
  repl1:PRIMARY> rs.conf()