The OS X Terminal is commonly used for establishing remote connections, and has some options for facilitating this.

The only thing you should need to change is the localhost address. In place of that, type the IP address of the server hosting MongoDB and then click Connect.

Tom Fenton shows you two ways to overcome the gotchas when setting up an ODBC connection to a remote database. This article is a follow-up to one I wrote in August 2017, "How To Set Up a SQL Express ...