ZCS Quick Start Guide, Network Edition 4.0
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Zimbra™ Collaboration Suite Installation Quick Start Network Edition 4.0

Zimbra Collaboration Suite Installation Quick Start
Network Edition 4.0
The Zimbra Collaboration Suite includes the Zimbra MTA, the Zimbra LDAP server, and the Zimbra mailbox server. During the installation process all components are installed and require no additional manual configuration.
This quick start guide assumes that all components will be installed on one server and describes the basic steps needed to install and configure the Zimbra Collaboration Suite in a direct network connect environment. In this environment, the Zimbra server is assigned a domain for which it receives mail, and a direct network connection to the Internet. When the Zimbra Collaboration Suite is installed, you will be able to log on to the Zimbra administration console to manage the domain and provision accounts. The accounts you create will be able to send and receive external email.
This quick start guide includes the following sections:
Important Notice About Quick Start Installations
The Zimbra Collaboration Suite is designed to be the only application suite installed on the server. The Zimbra Collaboration Suite bundles and installs, as part of the installation process various other third party and open source software, including Apache Tomcat, Postfix, OpenLDAP®, and MySQL®. The versions installed have been tested and configured to work with the Zimbra software. See the Administration Guide for a complete list of software.
Note: A Zimbra license is required in order to create accounts on the Network Edition Zimbra Collaboration Suite server. You can install ZCS without a license but only one account, the administrator account, can be created. See “Configure the Zimbra License for ZCS Network Edition” .
The following ports are set as defaults when the Zimbra Collaboration Suite is installed.
 
Important. You cannot have any other web server, database, LDAP, or MTA server running, when you install the Zimbra software. If you have installed any of the applications, before you install Zimbra software, disable these applications.
Installation Prerequisites
In order to successfully install and run the Zimbra Collaboration Suite, ensure your system meets the requirements described in this section. System administrators should be familiar with installing and managing email systems.
System Requirements
For the ZCS system requirements see System Requirements for Zimbra Collaboration Suite 4.0
Note: To find SSH client software, go to http://www.download.com/ and search for SSH. The list displays software that can be purchased or downloaded for free. An example of a free SSH client software is PuTTY, a software implementation of SSH for Win32 and Unix platforms. To download a copy go to http://putty.nl/ .
Modifying Operating System Configurations
Configuration modifications for two of the most frequently used operating systems, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora, are described in this guide. The SUSE configuration would be similar to those described for the Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The MAC OS X requires no additional modifications.
Other operating systems may require similar modifications, use this information as a reference to gauge whether your operating system may need to be modified. Also, search the Zimbra forums.
Installation Modifications for Red Hat Enterprise Linux
The Zimbra Collaboration Suite runs on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux, version 4 operating system. When you install the Red Hat software for the Zimbra Collaboration Suite, accept the default setup answers, except for the following steps. Refer to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux installation guide for detailed documentation about installing their software.
Disk Partitioning Setup. Check Manually partition with DiskDruid. The disk partition should be set up as follows:
The Mount Point/RAID Volume size for the /boot partition should be 100 MB.
The Swap partition should be set to twice the size of the RAM on your machine.
The Root partition (/) should be set with the remaining disk space size.
 
Network Configuration>Network Devices>Hostname should be configured manually with the fully qualified hostname [mailhost.example.com] of the Zimbra server.
 
Enter the Gateway and Primary DNS addresses.
In the Edit Interface pop-up screen, check Activate on Boot. Enter the IP Address and Netmask of the device. This allows the interface to start when you boot.
Firewall Configuration should be set to No firewall, and the Security Enhanced Linux (SELinux) should be disabled.
Important: You will need to disable Sendmail in order to run the Zimbra Collaboration Suite. You can disable the Sendmail service with these command, chkconfig sendmail off, service sendmail stop.
Important: Make sure that FQDN entry in /etc/hosts appears before the hostnames. If this is missing, the creation of the Zimbra certificate fails. The FQDN entry should look like this example. See zmcreatecert in the Administrator’s Guide, CLI Commands appendix.
 
your.ip.address                 FQDN yourhostname
Installation Modifications for Fedora
The Zimbra Collaboration Suite runs on the Fedora, Core 4 operating system. When you install the Fedora software for the Zimbra Collaboration Suite, accept the default setup answers, except for the following steps. Refer to the Fedora installation guide for detailed documentation about installing their software.
Disk Partitioning Setup. Check Manually partition with DiskDruid. The disk partition should be set up as follows:
The Mount Point/RAID Volume size for the /boot partition should be 100 MB.
The Swap partition should be set to twice the size of the RAM on your machine.
The Root partition (/) should be set with the remaining disk space size.
 
Network Configuration>Network Devices>Hostname should be configured manually with the fully qualified hostname name [mailhost.example.com] of the Zimbra server.
 
 
Enter the Gateway and Primary DNS addresses.
In the Edit Interface pop-up screen, check Activate on Boot. Enter the IP Address and Netmask of the device. This allows the interface to start when you boot.
Important: You will need to disable Sendmail in order to run the Zimbra Collaboration Suite. You can disable the Sendmail service with these command, chkconfig sendmail off, service sendmail stop.
Important: Make sure that FQDN entry in /etc/hosts appears before the hostnames. If this is missing, the creation of the Zimbra certificate fails. The FQDN entry should look like this example. See zmcreatecert in the Administrator’s Guide, CLI Commands appendix.
 
your.ip.address                 FQDN yourhostname
Installation Modification for Mac Servers
No modifications are required to the MAC server operating system, but Java 1.5 must be set as the default Java.
To set Java 1.5 as the default:
Configure DNS
In order to send and receive email, the Zimbra MTA must be configured in DNS with both A and MX records. For sending mail, the MTA uses DNS to resolve hostnames and email-routing information. To receive mail the MX record must be configured correctly to route the message to the mail server.
During the installation process ZCS checks to see if you have an MX record correctly configured. If it is not, an error is displayed suggesting that the domain name have an MX record configured in DNS.
You must configure a relay host if you do not enable DNS. After ZCS is installed, go to the Global Settings>MTA tab on the administration console and uncheck Enable DNS lookups. Enter the relay MTA address to use for external delivery.
Note: Even if a relay host is configured, an MX record is still required if the ZCS server is going to receive email from the internet.
Overview of Installation Process
When you run the install script, the Zimbra install verifies that the correct prerequisite packages are installed.
Zimbra Core installs the libraries, utilities, and monitoring tools.
Zimbra LDAP installs the OpenLDAP software, an open source LDAP directory services.
Zimbra MTA installs the Postfix open source MTA, the Clam AntiVirus antivirus engine, the SpamAssassin junk mail filter, and the Amavisd-New content filter.
Zimbra Store installs the mailbox server, including Apache Tomcat, the servlet container for the Zimbra server.
Zimbra Spell installs the Aspell open source spelling checker. When Zimbra spell is installed, Zimbra-Apache is also installed.
Zimbra SNMP installs the SNMP package for monitoring. This package is optional.
Zimbra Logger installs tools for syslog aggregation, reporting, and message tracing.
The Zimbra server configuration is menu driven. The installation menu shows you the default configuration values. The menu displays the logical host name and email domain name [mailhost.example.com] as configured on the computer. You can change any of the values. For single server installs, the only value you must define is the administrator’s password. The password is used to log on to the Zimbra administration console.
Downloading the Zimbra Software
For the latest Zimbra software download, go to www.Zimbra.com. Save the Zimbra Collaboration Suite archive file to the computer from which you will install the software.
When the Zimbra Collaboration Suite is installed, the following Zimbra applications are saved to the Zimbra server:
Zimbra Collaboration Suite Connector for Outlook® (ZCS Network Edition only). Format is a .msi file. This is a MAPI service provider that is installed on users’ computers.
Zimbra Collaboration Suite Migration Wizard for Exchange. Format is .exe file. Users can be migrated from Microsoft® Exchange server email accounts to Zimbra server accounts.
Zimbra Collaboration Suite Import Wizard for Outlook. Format is an .exe file. Users can import their Outlook .pst files to the Zimbra server.
See the Administrator’s Guide for information about the ZCS Connector for Outlook and the PST Import Wizard. See the Migration Wizard Guide for information about the Migration Wizard file.
Basic Configuration
The default configuration installs the Zimbra-LDAP, the Zimbra-MTA with anti-virus and anti-spam protection, the Zimbra mailbox server, the SNMP monitoring tools (optional), Zimbra-spell (optional), and the logger tool (optional), on one server.
The menu driven installation displays the components and their existing default values. During the installation process you can modify the information.
The table below describes the menu options
The LDAP host name. On a single server installation this name is the same as the hostname.
Create Domain - Yes. You can create one domain during installation and additional domains can be created from the administration console.
Domain to create - The default domain is the fully qualified hostname of the server. If you created a valid mail domain on your DNS server, enter it now. In most cases, you will accept the default.
Create Admin User - The administrator account is created during installation. This account is the first account provisioned on the Zimbra server and allows you to log on to the administration console.
Admin user to create - The default is admin@[mailhost.example.com].
Admin Password - You must set the admin account password. The password is case sensitive and must be a minimum of six characters. The administrator name, mail address, and password are required to log in to the administration console.
Enable automated spam training - By default, the automated spam training filter is enabled and two mail accounts are created.
1. Spam Training User to receive mail notification about mail that was not marked as junk, but should be.
2. Non-spam (HAM) training user to receive mail notification about mail that was marked as junk, but should not have been.
These addresses are automatically configured to work with the spam training filter. The accounts created have a randomly selected name. To recognize what the account is used for you may want to change this name.
Web server mode - Can be http, https, mixed. Mixed mode uses HTTPS for logging in and HTTP for normal session traffic. All modes use SSL encryption for back-end administrative traffic. Note: selecting both will set it to mixed.
Enable POP/IMAP proxy, default No. For single server installations, this setting should be No.
Use spell checker server: yes (if installed)
Spell server URL: http://<example.com>:7780/aspell.php
MTA Auth host. This is configured automatically if the MTA authentication server host is on the same server, but must be configured if the authentication server is not on the MTA.
Enable Spamassassin. Default is enabled.
Enable ClamAV. Default is enabled.
Notification address for AV alerts. Sets the notification address for AV alerts. You can either accept the default or create a new address. If you create a new address, remember to provision this address from the admin console. Note: If the virus notification address does not exist and your host name is the same as the domain name on the Zimbra server, the virus notifications queue in the Zimbra MTA server and cannot be delivered.
Enable SNMP notifications. The default is No. If you enter yes, you must enter the SNMP Trap hostname.
Enable SMTP notification - The default is No.
SMTP Source email address - If you enter yes for SMTP notification, you must enter the SMTP source email address and SMTP Destination email address - destination email address.
When installed, it is automatically enabled. This information is used to generate the statistics graphs and is used for message tracing.
11) Enable default backup schedule
For the Network Edition only, sets the schedule for Backup session to run as a full backup every Sunday at 1 a.m. and as incremental on the other days at 1 a.m.
When the installation and configuration is complete, if this is set to Yes, the Zimbra server is automatically started.
Installing Zimbra Software
For servers other than Mac servers, open an SSH session to the Zimbra server and follow the steps below.
For Macs, see “Installing Zimbra Software on a Mac Server” .
1.
Log in as root to the Zimbra server and cd to the directory where the Zimbra Collaboration Suite archive tar file is saved (cd /var/<tmp>). Type the following commands.
tar xzvf [zcs.tgz], to unpack the file
cd zcs, to change to the correct directory
./install.sh, to begin the installation
The install.sh script reviews the installation software to verify that the Zimbra packages are available.
The screen shots are examples of the Zimbra installation script
 
[root@mailhost. tmp]# tar xzvf zcs.tgz
    zimbra-logger...NOT FOUND
2.
The installation process checks to see if Sendmail, Postfix, and MySQL software are running. If any of these applications is running, you are asked to disable them. Disabling MySQL is optional but highly recommended. Sendmail and Postfix must be disabled for the Zimbra collaboration Suite to start correctly.
3.
The Zimbra software agreement is displayed and includes the link to the license terms for the Zimbra Collaboration Suite. Please read the agreement and, to continue, press Enter.
 
PLEASE READ THIS AGREEMENT CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THE SOFTWARE. ZIMBRA, INC. ("ZIMBRA") WILL ONLY LICENSE THIS SOFTWARE TO YOU IF YOU FIRST ACCEPT THE TERMS OF THIS AGREEMENT. BY DOWNLOADING OR INSTALLING THE SOFTWARE, OR USING THE PRODUCT, YOU ARE CONSENTING TO BE BOUND BY THIS AGREEMENT. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO ALL OF THE TERMS OF THIS AGREEMENT, THEN DO NOT DOWNLOAD, INSTALL OR USE THE PRODUCT.
    sudo -1.6.7p5-30.1.3...found
    libidn...FOUND libidn-0.5.6-1
    /user/lib/libstdc++- FOUND compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-47.3
4.
Next, the installer checks to see that the prerequisite software is installed. If NPTL, sudo, libidn, cURL, fetchmail, GMP or compat-libstdc++- are not installed, the install process quits. You must fix the problem and start the installation over.
5.
Select the services to be installed on this server. To install Zimbra Collaboration Suite on a single server, enter Y for each package.
6.
Type Y and press Enter to modify the system. The selected packages are installed on the server.
 
zimbra-store
    zimbra-apache
    zimbra-spell
    zimbra-logger
Note: Before the configuration starts, the installer checks to see if the hostname is resolvable via DNS. If there is an error, the installer asks if you would like to change the hostname. We recommend that the domain name have a MX record configured in DNS.
7.
At this point the Main menu displays the default entries for the Zimbra component you are installing. To expand the menu to see the configuration values type X and press Enter. The main menu expands to display configuration details for the package being installed. Values that require further configuration are marked with asterisks (*)
 
2) Ldap master host                         mailhost.example.com
+Domain to create:                     mailhost.example.com
   6) zimbra-store: Enabled
+SMTP host:                            mailhost.example.com
+Spell server URL: http://mailhost.example.com:7780/aspell.php
   7) zimbra-mta: Enabled
  11) Enable default backup schedule:          yes
To navigate the Main menu, select the menu item to change. You can modify any of the defaults. See Table 2, Main Menu Options, for a description of the Main menu.
For a quick installation, accepting all the defaults. You only need to do the following:
8.
Enter 6 to select Main menu 6, zimbra-store.
 
   5)+Enable automated spam training:        yes
   6)+Spam training user:                    fdi0j@mailhost.example.com
   7)+Non-spam (Ham)training user:           s3nnl@mailhost.example.com
   8)+SMTP host:                               mailhost.example.com
   9) Web server HTTP port: 80
18) Spell server URL: http://mailhost.example.com:7780/aspell.php
9.
Select 4 and type the admin password. The password must be six or more characters. Press Enter.
10.
Type r to return to the Main menu.
11.
If no other defaults need to be changed, type a to apply the configuration changes. Press Enter.
12.
When Save Configuration data to file appears, press Enter.
13.
The next request is where to save the files. To accept the default, press Enter. To save the files to another directory, enter the directory and then press Enter.
14.
When The system will be modified - continue? appears, type y and press Enter.
The server is modified. Installing all the components and configuring the server can take a few minutes.
15.