ZCS Administrator Guide 8.0

Network Edition

Final Set-Up

After the Zimbra servers are configured, the following functions must be configured.

Important: ZCS supports the default syslog of a supported operating system. Depending on your operating system, the steps contained in this section might not be correct. See your operating system documentation for specific information about how to enable syslog.

If logger is installed, set up the syslog configuration files to enable server statistics to display on the administration console, and enable the logger monitor host. The server statistics includes information about the message count, message volume, and anti-spam and anti-virus activity.

ZCS ships a default zimbra user with a disabled password. ZCS requires access to this account via ssh public key authentication. On most operating systems this combination is okay, but if you have modified pam rules to disallow any ssh access to disabled accounts then you must define a password for the zimbra UNIX account. This will allow ssh key authentication for checking remote queues. See the Zimbra wiki article, Mail Queue Monitoring.

Set up the ssh keys.

To populate the ssh keys, as Zimbra user (su-zimbra). Type zmupdateauthkeys and press Enter. The key is updated on
/opt/zimbra/.ssh/authorized_keys.

Enabling Server Statistics Display.

In order for the server statistics to display on the administration console, the syslog configuration files must be modified.

1.	As root, type /opt/zimbra/libexec/zmsyslogsetup. This enables the server to display statistics.

2.	You must enable syslog to log statistics from remote machines.

a.	Edit the /etc/sysconfig/syslog file, add -r to the SYSLOGD_OPTIONS setting, SYSLOGD_options=”-r -m 0”

b.	Stop the syslog daemon. Type /etc/init.d/syslog stop

c.	Start the syslog daemon. Type /etc/init.d/syslog start

Note:

On DEBIAN AND UBUNTU, step 2 is as follows

a.	Edit the /etc/default/syslogd file, add -r to the SYSLOGD_OPTIONS setting, SYSLOGD_options=”-r -m 0”

b.	Stop the syslog daemon. Type /etc/init.d/sysklogd stop

c.	Start the syslog daemon. Type /etc/init.d/sysklogd start