[Tutor] No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it (despite mongod running) and unable to insert data into MongoDB

[Emile van Sebille]

On 1/21/2016 2:06 PM, Arjun Srivatsa wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I have been trying to insert data (a 'hello world' string) from PLC into
> MongoDB using Python API (which pulls the data from PLC and pushes it into
> MongoDB). I have been getting the error message '*line 222, in meth  return
> getattr(self._sock,name)(*args) error: [Errno 10061] No connection could be
> made because the target machine actively refused it*' despite having mongod
> running in the Services background for the code I have written below. Also,
> the server IP address on which MongoDB is present is 10.52.124.186 and
> address of PLC (which I am using it on my PC) is 10.52.124.135. I am have
> tried almost everything to sort it out and yet I haven't got a clue as to
> how to get past it. Where am I going wrong?


The error you're getting means that the firewall running on the mongod 
host machine is not properly configured to allow mongod traffic into it. 
  Talk to the machines firewall administrator.

Emile