Once the two services — extractor and applier — have been installed, the services can be monitored using trepctl. To monitor the extractor service:

shell> trepctl status
Processing status command...
NAME                     VALUE
----                     -----
appliedLastEventId     : mysql-bin.000008:0000000000412301;0
appliedLastSeqno       : 1296
appliedLatency         : 1.889
channels               : 1
clusterName            : epsilon
currentEventId         : mysql-bin.000008:0000000000412301
currentTimeMillis      : 1377097812795
dataServerHost         : host1
extensions             : 
latestEpochNumber      : 1286
masterConnectUri       : thl://localhost:/
masterListenUri        : thl://host2:2112/
maximumStoredSeqNo     : 1296
minimumStoredSeqNo     : 0
offlineRequests        : NONE
pendingError           : NONE
pendingErrorCode       : NONE
pendingErrorEventId    : NONE
pendingErrorSeqno      : -1
pendingExceptionMessage: NONE
pipelineSource         : jdbc:mysql:thin://host1:13306/
relativeLatency        : 177444.795
resourcePrecedence     : 99
rmiPort                : 10000
role                   : master
seqnoType              : java.lang.Long
serviceName            : alpha
serviceType            : local
simpleServiceName      : alpha
siteName               : default
sourceId               : host1
state                  : ONLINE
timeInStateSeconds     : 177443.948
transitioningTo        : 
uptimeSeconds          : 177461.483
version                : Tungsten Replicator 6.1.25 build 6
Finished status command...

The replicator service operates just the same as a standard Extractor service of a typical MySQL replication service.

The MongoDB applier service can be accessed either remotely from the Extractor:

shell> trepctl -host host2 status
...

Or locally on the MongoDB host:

shell> trepctl status
Processing status command...
NAME                     VALUE
----                     -----
appliedLastEventId     : mysql-bin.000008:0000000000412301;0
appliedLastSeqno       : 1296
appliedLatency         : 10.253
channels               : 1
clusterName            : alpha
currentEventId         : NONE
currentTimeMillis      : 1377098139212
dataServerHost         : host2
extensions             : 
latestEpochNumber      : 1286
masterConnectUri       : thl://host1:2112/
masterListenUri        : null
maximumStoredSeqNo     : 1296
minimumStoredSeqNo     : 0
offlineRequests        : NONE
pendingError           : NONE
pendingErrorCode       : NONE
pendingErrorEventId    : NONE
pendingErrorSeqno      : -1
pendingExceptionMessage: NONE
pipelineSource         : thl://host1:2112/
relativeLatency        : 177771.212
resourcePrecedence     : 99
rmiPort                : 10000
role                   : slave
seqnoType              : java.lang.Long
serviceName            : alpha
serviceType            : local
simpleServiceName      : alpha
siteName               : default
sourceId               : host2
state                  : ONLINE
timeInStateSeconds     : 177783.343
transitioningTo        : 
uptimeSeconds          : 180631.276
version                : Tungsten Replicator 6.1.25 build 6
Finished status command...

Monitoring the status of replication between the Source and Target is also the same. The appliedLastSeqno still indicates the sequence number that has been applied to MongoDB, and the event ID from MongoDB can still be identified from appliedLastEventId.

Sequence numbers between the two hosts should match, as in a Primary/Replica deployment, but due to the method used to replicate, the applied latency may be higher. Tables that do not use primary keys, or large individual row updates may cause increased latency differences.

To check for information within MongoDB, use the mongo command-line client:

shell> mongo
MongoDB shell version: 2.2.4
connecting to: test
> use cheffy;
switched to db cheffy

The show collections will indicate the tables from MySQL that have been replicated to MongoDB:

> show collections
access_log
audit_trail
blog_post_record
helpdb
ingredient_recipes
ingredient_recipes_bytext
ingredients
ingredients_alt
ingredients_keywords
ingredients_matches
ingredients_measures
ingredients_plurals
ingredients_search_class
ingredients_search_class_map
ingredients_shop_class
ingredients_xlate
ingredients_xlate_class
keyword_class
keywords
measure_plurals
measure_trans
metadata
nut_fooddesc
nut_foodgrp
nut_footnote
nut_measure
nut_nutdata
nut_nutrdef
nut_rda
nut_rda_class
nut_source
nut_translate
nut_weight
recipe
recipe_coll_ids
recipe_coll_search
recipe_collections
recipe_comments
recipe_pics
recipebase
recipeingred
recipekeywords
recipemeta
recipemethod
recipenutrition
search_translate
system.indexes
terms

Collection counts should match the row count of the source tables:

> > db.recipe.count()
2909

The db.collection.find() command can be used to list the documents within a given collection.

> db.recipe.find()
{ "_id" : ObjectId("5212233584ae46ce07e427c3"), 
"recipeid" : "1085", 
"title" : "Creamy egg and leek special", 
"subtitle" : "", 
"servings" : "4", 
"active" : "1", 
"parid" : "0", 
"userid" : "0", 
"rating" : "0.0", 
"cumrating" : "0.0", 
"createdate" : "0" }
{ "_id" : ObjectId("5212233584ae46ce07e427c4"),
 "recipeid" : "87",
 "title" : "Chakchouka",
 "subtitle" : "A traditional Arabian and North African dish and often accompanied with slices of cooked meat",
 "servings" : "4",
 "active" : "1",
 "parid" : "0",
 "userid" : "0",
 "rating" : "0.0",
 "cumrating" : "0.0",
 "createdate" : "0" }    
 ...

The output should be checked to ensure that information is being correctly replicated. If strings are shown as a hex value, for example:

"title" : "[B@7084a5c"

It probably indicates that UTF8 and/or --mysql-use-bytes-for-string=false options were not used during installation. The configuration can be updated using tpm to address this issue.