grommunio-admin-dbconf(1)

Name
grommunio-admin dbconf — Database-stored configuration management.

Synopsis

grommunio-admin dbconf (commit | delete) SERVICE [FILE [KEY]]
grommunio-admin dbconf get SERVICE FILE [KEY]
grommunio-admin dbconf list [SERVICE [FILE [KEY]]]
grommunio-admin dbconf set [-b] [-i] [--] SERVICE FILE KEY VALUE

Description

grommunio dbconf provides the ability to store and manage configurations at a single location while making it available across distributed systems. The configurations are stored in the central MySQL database and can be accessed via grommunio-dbconf(1) and grommunio-admin-dbconf(1).
While both tools essentially provide the same functionality, grommunio-dbconf(1) provides far better performance and is intended to be used for quickly accessing the configuration.

Configurations consist of key/value pairs organized in files, grouped by service. Each service can have an arbitrary number of configuration files, which in turn can contain an arbitrary number of unique keys.

Commands

commit
    Trigger commit hook for service, file or key

delete
    Delete service, file or key

get Get file or single key

list
    List available services, files or keys

set Set a configuration key

Options

SERVICE
    Name of the service to configure

FILE
    Name of the configuration file

KEY Name of the configuration key

VALUE
    Value to store in the key

--  Indicate that all options have been specified and only names follow

-b, --batch
    Do not auto-commit

-i, --init
    Only set if configuration key does not exist yet

grommunio-admin
The grommunio-admin API and CLI are also dbconf consumers. This allows system adiministrators to change certain configurations without filesystem access and the need to restart the API.

The following files and keys are meaningful when placed under the grommunio-admin service:

  multi-server

policy
    Server selection policy for newly created users and domains in multi-server environments. Possible values are balanced, first, last, random and round-robin. Default is round-robin.

Commit Hooks
When modifying values, potential consumers can be notified of this change via commit hooks, for example by restarting the service using the configuration. For security reasons only a few white-listed commands are available (see section AVAILABLE COMMIT COMMANDS).

Commit hooks can be defined on key, file or service level. set operations always trigger commits at key level, while the commit command can directly trigger key or service level hooks depending on whether a file or key is specified.

If no hook is defined for a specific trigger level, it automatically falls through to the next lower level, in the order key > file > service.

Commit hooks for a service can be defined by setting commit_key, commit_file and commit_service keys under grommunio-dbconf/<service> to a valid command (see below).

Available Commit Commands
The following commands are available:

  Key
postconf -e $ENTRY

  File
postconf -e $FILE_S && systemctl reload postfix

  Service

systemctl reload $SERVICE
systemctl restart $SERVICE

Macros
As the whitelisted commands might be hard to memorize and may be changed in the future, macros are provided that expand to whitelisted commands.

The following macros are defined:

  Key
#POSTCONF -> postconf -e $ENTRY

  File
#POSTCONF -> sudo postconf -e $FILE_S && systemctl reload postfix

  Service

#RELOAD -> systemctl reload $SERVICE
#RESTART -> systemctl restart $SERVICE

Command Variable Expansion
Commands can contain $-prefixed variables that are expanded before execution. The literal $$ can be used to generate a single $.

The following variables are valid:

ENTRY
    Expands to $KEY=$VALUE (key level only)

FILE
    Complete content of the modified file as newline separated key=value entries (file level only)

FILE_S
    Complete content of the modified file as space separated key=value entries (file level only)

FILENAME
    Name of the modified file (key and file level)

KEY The modified key (key level only)

SERVICE
    Name of the modified service

VALUE
    New value of the modified key (key level only)

See Also
grommunio-admin(1), grommunio-admin-config(1), grommunio-admin-mconf(1). grommunio-dbconf(1)