Status checkClusterMongoVersions(const ConnectionString& configLoc,
                                     const string& minMongoVersion)
    {
        scoped_ptr<ScopedDbConnection> connPtr;

        //
        // Find mongos pings in config server
        //

        try {
            connPtr.reset(new ScopedDbConnection(configLoc, 30));
            ScopedDbConnection& conn = *connPtr;
            scoped_ptr<DBClientCursor> cursor(_safeCursor(conn->query(MongosType::ConfigNS,
                                                                      Query())));

            while (cursor->more()) {

                BSONObj pingDoc = cursor->next();

                MongosType ping;
                string errMsg;
                // NOTE: We don't care if the ping is invalid, legacy stuff will be
                if (!ping.parseBSON(pingDoc, &errMsg)) {
                    warning() << "could not parse ping document: " << pingDoc << causedBy(errMsg)
                              << endl;
                    continue;
                }

                string mongoVersion = "2.0";
                // Hack to determine older mongos versions from ping format
                if (ping.isWaitingSet()) mongoVersion = "2.2";
                if (ping.isMongoVersionSet() && ping.getMongoVersion() != "") {
                    mongoVersion = ping.getMongoVersion();
                }

                Date_t lastPing = ping.getPing();

                long long quietIntervalMillis = 0;
                Date_t currentJsTime = jsTime();
                if (currentJsTime >= lastPing) {
                    quietIntervalMillis = static_cast<long long>(currentJsTime - lastPing);
                }
                long long quietIntervalMins = quietIntervalMillis / (60 * 1000);

                // We assume that anything that hasn't pinged in 5 minutes is probably down
                if (quietIntervalMins >= 5) {
                    log() << "stale mongos detected " << quietIntervalMins << " minutes ago,"
                          << " network location is " << pingDoc["_id"].String()
                          << ", not checking version" << endl;
            	}
                else {
                    if (versionCmp(mongoVersion, minMongoVersion) < 0) {
                        return Status(ErrorCodes::RemoteValidationError,
                                      stream() << "version " << mongoVersion << " of mongos at "
                                               << ping.getName()
                                               << " is not compatible with the config update, "
                                               << "you must wait 5 minutes "
                                               << "after shutting down a pre-" << minMongoVersion
                                               << " mongos");
                    }
                }
            }
        }
        catch (const DBException& e) {
            return e.toStatus("could not read mongos pings collection");
        }

        //
        // Load shards from config server
        //

        vector<ConnectionString> shardLocs;

        try {
            ScopedDbConnection& conn = *connPtr;
            scoped_ptr<DBClientCursor> cursor(_safeCursor(conn->query(ShardType::ConfigNS,
                                                                      Query())));

            while (cursor->more()) {

                BSONObj shardDoc = cursor->next();

                ShardType shard;
                string errMsg;
                if (!shard.parseBSON(shardDoc, &errMsg) || !shard.isValid(&errMsg)) {
                    connPtr->done();
                    return Status(ErrorCodes::UnsupportedFormat,
                                  stream() << "invalid shard " << shardDoc
                                           << " read from the config server" << causedBy(errMsg));
                }

                ConnectionString shardLoc = ConnectionString::parse(shard.getHost(), errMsg);
                if (shardLoc.type() == ConnectionString::INVALID) {
                    connPtr->done();
                    return Status(ErrorCodes::UnsupportedFormat,
                                  stream() << "invalid shard host " << shard.getHost()
                                           << " read from the config server" << causedBy(errMsg));
                }

                shardLocs.push_back(shardLoc);
            }
        }
        catch (const DBException& e) {
            return e.toStatus("could not read shards collection");
        }

        connPtr->done();

        //
        // We've now got all the shard info from the config server, start contacting the shards
        // and verifying their versions.
        //

        for (vector<ConnectionString>::iterator it = shardLocs.begin(); it != shardLocs.end(); ++it)
        {
            ConnectionString& shardLoc = *it;

            vector<HostAndPort> servers = shardLoc.getServers();

            for (vector<HostAndPort>::iterator serverIt = servers.begin();
                    serverIt != servers.end(); ++serverIt)
            {
                // Note: This will *always* be a single-host connection
                ConnectionString serverLoc(*serverIt);

                log() << "checking that version of host " << serverLoc << " is compatible with " 
                      << minMongoVersion << endl;

                scoped_ptr<ScopedDbConnection> serverConnPtr;

                bool resultOk;
                BSONObj buildInfo;

                try {
                    serverConnPtr.reset(new ScopedDbConnection(serverLoc, 30));
                    ScopedDbConnection& serverConn = *serverConnPtr;

                    resultOk = serverConn->runCommand("admin",
                                                      BSON("buildInfo" << 1),
                                                      buildInfo);
                }
                catch (const DBException& e) {
                    warning() << "could not run buildInfo command on " << serverLoc.toString()
                              << causedBy(e) << ", you must manually verify this mongo server is "
                              << "offline (for at least 5 minutes) or of a version >= 2.2" << endl;
                    continue;
                }

                // TODO: Make running commands saner such that we can consolidate error handling
                if (!resultOk) {
                    return Status(ErrorCodes::UnknownError,
                                  stream() << DBClientConnection::getLastErrorString(buildInfo)
                                           << causedBy(buildInfo.toString()));
                }

                serverConnPtr->done();

                verify(buildInfo["version"].type() == String);
                string mongoVersion = buildInfo["version"].String();

                if (versionCmp(mongoVersion, minMongoVersion) < 0) {
                    return Status(ErrorCodes::RemoteValidationError,
                                  stream() << "version " << mongoVersion << " of mongo server at "
                                           << serverLoc.toString()
                                           << " is not compatible with the config update");
                }
            }
        }

        return Status::OK();
    }