POP3/ POP3S Health Monitor

Overview

The POP3 (Post Office Protocol version 3) health monitor is used to monitor POP services. It will issue LIST command to get messages present in mailbox, after executing CAPA (capabilities) and verifying user using username and password.

On successful completion of these commands, POP3 monitor will mark the server up, else it will mark the server down.

Configuring POP3 Specific Monitor

Field	Description	Optional/ Mandatory
Username	Mail client username (present under general health monitor configuration under authentication)	Mandatory
Password	Mail client password (present under general health monitor configuration under authentication)	Mandatory
SSL Attributes	Required for POP3S (secure pop3) monitor	Mandatory for POP3S (SSL Profile Attribute)

Note: Currently these can be configured only using the CLI.

Configuring POP3 Health Monitor from CLI


[admin:avi-controller]: > configure healthmonitor example-basic-pop3-hm
[admin:avi-controller]: healthmonitor> type health_monitor_pop3
[admin:avi-controller]: healthmonitor> authentication
[admin:avi-controller]: healthmonitor:authentication> username user1
[admin:avi-controller]: healthmonitor:authentication> password gjgksad
[admin:avi-controller]: healthmonitor:authentication> save
[admin:avi-controller]: healthmonitor> save

Configuring POP3S Health Monitor from CLI


[admin:avi-controller]: > configure healthmonitor example-pop3s-hm
[admin:avi-controller]: healthmonitor> type health_monitor_pop3s
[admin:avi-controller]: healthmonitor> pop3s_monitor
[admin:avi-controller]: healthmonitor:pop3s_monitor> ssl_attributes
[admin:avi-controller]: healthmonitor:pop3s_monitor:ssl_attributes> ssl_profile_ref System-Standard
[admin:avi-controller]: healthmonitor:pop3s_monitor:ssl_attributes> save
[admin:avi-controller]: healthmonitor:pop3s_monitor> save
[admin:avi-controller]: healthmonitor> authentication
[admin:avi-controller]: healthmonitor:authentication> username user1
[admin:avi-controller]: healthmonitor:authentication> password njkhasdkj
[admin:avi-controller]: healthmonitor:authentication> save
[admin:avi-controller]: healthmonitor> save

The following are the SSL configurations used for POP3S health monitor.

SSL Profile — Select an existing SSL Profile or create a new one, as required. This defines the ciphers and SSL versions to be used for the health monitor traffic to the backend servers.
PKI Profile — Select an existing PKI profile or create a new one, as required. This will be used as to validate the SSL certificate presented by the server.
SSL Key and Certificate — Select an existing SSL Key and Certificate or create a new one, as required.

Document Revision History

Date	Change Summary
April 15, 2021	Published POP3 Health Monitor Guide