OCF_HEARTBEAT_DOVECO(7)

💌 ocf_heartbeat_dovecot — the manual, but make it make sense

okay bestie, pull up a chair, we're reading OCF_HEARTBEAT_DOVECO(7) from the OCF resource agents collection together and honestly? it's giving main character energy for your mail server. 🕊️✨

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✨ NAME ✨

ocf_heartbeat_dovecot — she manages a highly available Dovecot IMAP/POP3 server instance. no cap, that's literally the whole job. 💅

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

dovecot [start | stop | monitor | meta-data | validate-all]

that's the lineup, bestie. those are your five moves. 👑

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

So this script manages Dovecot as an OCF resource inside a high-availability setup. That's it, that's the vibe — it's the girl who keeps Dovecot alive and kicking when the cluster needs her to be. 🦋

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💖 SUPPORTED PARAMETERS 💖

These are the knobs you can turn. Every single one, no skipping, iykyk. 🎛️

• binary — the full path to the Dovecot binary. like, for example, "/usr/sbin/dovecot". (optional, string, default "/usr/sbin/dovecot")
• config_file — full path to a Dovecot configuration file. for example, "/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf". (unique, optional, string, no default)
• pid_file — full path to a Dovecot PID file. for example, "/var/run/dovecot/master.pid". (unique, optional, string, default "/var/run/dovecot/master.pid")
• parameters — the Dovecot daemon can be called with extra parameters, and you drop any of them right here. 🍓 (optional, string, no default)

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🔥 SUPPORTED ACTIONS 🔥

This resource agent supports the following actions (aka operations). every single one of them, and the timeouts are not a suggestion you can ignore, okay? 😭

• start — starts the resource. suggested minimum timeout: 20s.
• stop — stops the resource. suggested minimum timeout: 20s.
• reload — suggested minimum timeout: 20s.
• monitor — performs a detailed status check. suggested minimum timeout: 20s. suggested interval: 60s.
• validate-all — performs a validation of the resource configuration. suggested minimum timeout: 20s.
• meta-data — retrieves resource agent metadata (internal use only, so don't get any ideas 💀). suggested minimum timeout: 5s.

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💅 EXAMPLE CRM SHELL 💅

Here's an example config for a dovecot resource using the crm(8) shell. copy it, love it, respect it:

primitive p_dovecot ocf:heartbeat:dovecot \
  op monitor depth="0" timeout="20s" interval="60s"

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🧚 EXAMPLE PCS 🧚

And here's the same energy for pcs(8):

pcs resource create p_dovecot ocf:heartbeat:dovecot \
  op monitor OCF_CHECK_LEVEL="0" timeout="20s" interval="60s"

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• http://clusterlabs.org/ — go look, bestie, they're iconic.

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🌈 AUTHOR 🌈

ClusterLabs contributors (see the resource agent source for information about individual authors). they ate and left no crumbs, fr fr. 🫶

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okay that's the whole page!! mwah 💖 this was from the resource-agents source, version UNKNOWN, dated 04/08/2026, and it's OCF_HEARTBEAT_DOVECO(7) — go be a highly available icon, bestie 🌸🦋✨