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3.2 KiB
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48 lines
3.2 KiB
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---
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id: pop3
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title: Monitoring POP3
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sidebar_label: POP3 Monitor
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keywords: [open source monitoring tool, open source java monitoring tool, monitoring POP3 metrics]
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---
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> Collect and monitor the general performance Metrics of POP3.
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**Protocol Use:POP3**
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## Enable POP3 Service
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If you want to monitor information in 'POP3' with this monitoring type, you just need to open `POP3` service in your mail server.
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**1、Open `POP3` Service:**
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```text
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Using QQ Mail as an example [similar for other email services]:
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1. Click the "Settings" option
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2. Select "Account"
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3. Find the option to enable SMTP/POP3/IMAP, and turn it on
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4. Obtain the POP3 server domain name, port number, and authorization code [provided by QQ Mail after enabling SMTP/POP3/IMAP services]
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5. Connect to the POP3 server using the POP3 server domain name, port number, QQ email account, and authorization code to collect monitoring metrics
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```
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### Configuration parameter
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| Parameter name | Parameter help description |
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|---------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
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| Monitoring Host | Monitored IPV4, IPV6 or domain name. Note⚠️Without protocol header (eg: https://, http://) |
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| Monitoring name | Identify the name of this monitoring. The name needs to be unique |
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| Port | Port provided by POP3 |
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| SSL | POP3 If enabled SSL |
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| Timeout | Allow collection response time |
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| Collection interval | Interval time of monitor periodic data collection, unit: second, and the minimum interval that can be set is 30 seconds |
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| Whether to detect | Whether to detect and check the availability of monitoring before adding monitoring. Adding and modifying operations will continue only after the detection is successful |
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| Description remarks | For more information about identifying and describing this monitoring, users can note information here |
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### Collection Metrics
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#### Metrics Set:email_status
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| Metric name | Metric unit | Metric help description |
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|--------------|-------------|-----------------------------------------|
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| email_count | | Number of emails |
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| mailbox_size | kb | The total size of emails in the mailbox |
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