Lösningen som fungerar för mig.
from sshtunnel import SSHTunnelForwarder
import pymongo
import pprint
MONGO_HOST = "REMOTE_IP_ADDRESS"
MONGO_DB = "DATABASE_NAME"
MONGO_USER = "LOGIN"
MONGO_PASS = "PASSWORD"
server = SSHTunnelForwarder(
MONGO_HOST,
ssh_username=MONGO_USER,
ssh_password=MONGO_PASS,
remote_bind_address=('127.0.0.1', 27017)
)
server.start()
client = pymongo.MongoClient('127.0.0.1', server.local_bind_port) # server.local_bind_port is assigned local port
db = client[MONGO_DB]
pprint.pprint(db.collection_names())
server.stop()