DovemonΒΆ

Dovemon is a backend monitoring tool for director hosts. It monitors backend responses and disables/enables backends if they stop responding. (Requires Dovecot v2.2.19 or later. For older versions use poolmon.)

Configuration file: /etc/dovecot/dovemon.config.yml:

loglevel: 4
syslog_facility: 'local5'
director_admin_socket: /var/run/dovecot/director-admin
lockfile: /var/lock/subsys/dovemon
auth: plain
poll_imap: yes
poll_pop3: no
poll_lmtp: no
imap_ssl: no
pop3_ssl: no
lmtp_ssl: no
interval: 10
timeout: 3
retry_count: 3

logelevel: 0-4

  • syslog_facility: local5

    • Syslog facility to use when logging

  • director_admin_socket: /var/run/dovecot/director-admin

    • director-admin unix socket used for director admin communication. director-admin unix listener service needs to be configured in dovecot.conf

  • lockfile: /var/lock/subsys/dovemon

    • Location of local dovemon lock file.

  • auth: plain

    • Type of authentication to use to connect to backend. Either plain or sasl (needed for master authentication)

  • poll_imap: yes/no

    • use imap connection to poll backend

  • poll_pop3: yes/no

    • use pop3 connection to poll backend

  • poll_lmtp: yes/no

    • use lmtp connection to poll backend

  • poll_unknown_backends: yes/no

    • 2.2.32 stop polling backends that do not exist in dovemon.testusers.yml

  • imap_ssl: yes/no

    • use ssl connection for imap poll

  • pop3_ssl: yes/no

    • use ssl connection for pop3 poll

  • lmtp_ssl: yes/no

    • use ssl connection for lmtp poll

  • interval: 0-n

    • poll interval in seconds

  • timeout: 0-n

    • timeout in seconds for each poll

  • retry_count: 0-n

    • number of failed polls before issuing HOST-DOWN for the backend

  • rapid_rounds: 10

  • rapid_fails_needed: 8

Test accounts file: /etc/dovecot/dovemon.testaccounts.yml

10.2.2.75:
username: user0001
password: tosivaikeasalasana
10.2.2.76:
username: user0002
password: tosivaikeasalasana

For master user authentication, the auth setting in dovemon.yml should be set to sasl. Test accounts file:

10.2.2.75:
username: user0001
masteruser: masteruser
password: masterpassword

This file allows configuring a separate test account for each backend. The backend must be specified using the same IP address as what doveadm director status shows for it. if connection to backends fail 3 times in a row per protocol (retry_count in config) dovemon goes to rapid poll mode for the backend. In this rapid mode dovecot does quick round of 10 polls with the same protocol (rapid_rounds in config) and if 8 of them still fail, then issue HOST-DOWN in the backend and FLUSH users form the backend to be redistributed to the remainining backends. Also dovemon issues HOST-UP on backend upon first successful poll if backend is already marked down.

For more information on dovemon workflow see dovemon documentation page