Mongod Process starts but Systemctl status shows failed

I have created a mongod configuration in /home/cluster1.conf with the same port I used previously for etc/mongod.conf.

I used to run etc/mongod.conf as a sudo user but expect to run cluster1.conf as user.

when I run cluster1.conf as user, the process starts. I accessed it from mongo shell and did operations. But when I'm trying to access it from another vm from the same VPC, it failed.

I checked for systemctl status mongod and it shows service is not running.

Why does systemctl status shows it not running when it really does? How can I resolve this to create a replica set??

Solution

"when I run cluster1.conf as user, the process starts." does not make much sense. cluster1.conf is a configuration file, it does not start anything.

When you run systemctl status mongod, then it typically shows

● mongod.service - MongoDB Database Server
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/mongod.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
   Active: active (running) since Fri 2021-08-27 09:44:26 CEST; 2 weeks 3 days ago
     Docs: https://docs.mongodb.org/manual
 Main PID: 38710 (mongod)
    Tasks: 28
   Memory: 270.8M
   CGroup: /system.slice/mongod.service
           └─38710 /usr/bin/mongod -f /etc/mongod.conf

Check the service file /etc/systemd/system/mongod.service there you see entry like

Environment="OPTIONS=-f /etc/mongod.conf"
EnvironmentFile=-/etc/sysconfig/mongod
ExecStart=/usr/bin/mongod $OPTIONS

Which means, config file /etc/mongod.conf is used (rather than /home/cluster1.conf)