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Eddy_161863's avatar
Eddy_161863
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May 04, 2016

how does IMAP health check works?

Hi,   I am using advanced monitoring for IMAP and health check is failing. Since we do not define send and receive strings in IMAP health check, what information it looks for once it login to the ...
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Eddy_161863
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May 05, 2016

thank you!!

 

so I did troubleshoot and looks like server side doesn't accept plaintext authentication. I will try to test it with plaintext enabled and let you know the results.

 

My another question, how I can achieve the same for secure IMAP? I'm not using iapp template and all config is manual. I want to define username and password to login to the server. should I be using IMAP or HTTPS monitor?

 

Thanks in advance for your help.

 

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IanB
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May 09, 2016
BigIP does not have a built-in IMAPS monitor type. You could create an external shell script that would make use of 'openssl s_client' to create an SSL connection, and then run its own IMAP check, but you would have to write this yourself, or find one already written here on devcentral (I haven't looked to see if there are any). An HTTPS monitor would not work, as it speaks HTTP over SSL, and you need to speak IMAP over SSL.