Documentation forServer & Application Monitor
Monitoring your applications and environment is a key capability of SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted (formerly Hybrid Cloud Observability) and is available in the Essentials edition. Server & Application Monitor (SAM) is also available in a standalone module.

POP3 User Experience Monitor

This SAM component monitor tests an email round trip from your SMTP mail server to your POP3 mail server and measures the time it takes to complete the trip, in milliseconds.

Statistic

This component monitor does not compute a statistic.

Field descriptions

Description

A default description of the monitor. To override the default description, add to or replace existing text. Changes are automatically saved. The variable to access this field is ${UserDescription}.

Customize descriptions to specify what will be monitored so related alerts and notifications are more meaningful later.

Enable Component

Determines whether the component is enabled. Disabling the component leaves it in the application in a deactivated state not influencing either SolarWinds SAM application availability or status.

Credential for Monitoring

Select a credential that has sufficient access rights to retrieve email from the POP3 server. Click a credential in the list, or use the <Inherit credential from node> option. If the credential you need is not in the credentials list, add it in the SAM Credentials Library.

Send Email From

Specify the From address of the test email message.

Send Email To

Specify the recipient of the test email message. The recipient should have a mailbox on the POP3 server you are monitoring.

POP3 Port

The port number used for POP3 sessions. The default value is 110.

For Secure POP3 (SSL-POP), use port 995.

POP3 Encryption

Select an encryption protocol to connect to POP3 servers that support SSL or TLS encryption.

SMTP Server

Specify the SMTP server that sends the test email message.

SMTP Port

The port number used for SMTP sessions. The default value is 25.

Use Credentials for SMTP

Select this check box to use the username and password from Credentials for Monitoring to connect to SMTP servers that support or require authentication.

SMTP Encryption

Select an encryption protocol to connect to SMTP servers that support SSL or TLS encryption.

Response Time Threshold

Set the warning or critical threshold conditions based on the response time. The response time is the time in milliseconds it takes SolarWinds SAM to determine that a component is not Down and to retrieve any statistical data. See Application Monitor Thresholds.

User Notes

Add notes for easy reference. You can access this field by using the variable, ${UserNotes}.