ZCS Administrator's Guide Network Edition 6.0, Rev 1

Creating Dedicated Archive COS in a Multi-Server Environment

Using the Administration Console

Using CLI

In a multi server deployment with a dedicated archive server, you create a dedicated archive COS for the server. This COS is set up on the archive server as a dedicated host. The server is removed from the COS server pool so that the archive server is not randomly assigned to new accounts.

You can create the COS from the administration console or from the CLI. Attributes can be configured in the COS to set mailbox features, quotas, and password, turn off spam and virus checks and to hide the archive accounts from GAL. In addition to setting these attributes, you remove the archive server from the COS server pool.

Note: These steps to remove the server from the server pool are not done in a single-server deployment. Creating a dedicated archiving COS is a good idea as this makes it easy to create archive mailboxes that are configured the same.

Using the Administration Console

Create a new dedicated COS configured correctly for your archive accounts. To remove the server from the server pool, in the Server Pool tab deselect the archive server.

Using CLI

To obtaining the zimbra-store server ID of the archive server and the server pool, zimbraMailHostPool ID.

1.	Look up the server ID for the archive server, type

zmprov gs -e <archivestoreservername> zimbraID

The archive store server ID is returned.

 

zmprov gs -e local host.com zimbraID # name example. com zimbraId: 6515ef25-2d56-4cd7-951c-c922g23d6e8e

2.	Look up the zimbraMailHostPool ID for the default COS on this server, type

zmprov gc default zimbraMailHostPool

In this example, the default COS lists three servers, including the archive server.

 

zmprov gc default zimbraMailHostPool # name default zimbraMailHostPool: 6515ef25-2d56-4cd7-951c-c922g23d6e8e d6b9a0 266e-46ac-a1a5-7391d4763616 d6b9a0 266e-25ca-a1a5-7451d4951616

3.	Removing the archive zimbra-store server ID from the server pool..

zmprov mc <cos> zimbraMailHostPool <archiveserver ID>

 

zmprov mc default zimbraMailHostPool 6515ef25-2d56-4cd7-951c-c922g23d6e8e

Repeat this process to remove the archive store server ID from the zimbraMailHostPool in all existing COS

4.	Now create an COS for the archive server. Set the zimbraMailHostPool on a single Zimbra server to only be the archive server ID.

zmprov cc <archivingCOSName> zimbraMailHostPool <archive server ID>

 

zmprov cc archiving zimbraMailHostPool 6515ef25-2d56-4cd7-951c-c922g23d6e8e

Now when you create an archive account and use the archive COS, the account is automatically created on the archive server.

Administering the archive server

The amavisd-new server process controls account archiving as well as antivirus and antispam processes. The zmarchivectl command can be used to start, stop, restart or obtain the status of the amavisd-new server process that controls account archiving. Caution should be taken when starting or stopping the archiving process as it is a shared server process between archiving, antivirus, and antispam processes. Performing actions on any of them affect any of the other services that may be enabled in your deployment.

If you want to disable archiving and not antivirus, or antispam services, disable the respective service either through the CLI or through the administration console.

To disable archiving using CLI, type

zmprov ms <zmhostname> -zimbraServiceEnabled archiving

ZCS Administrator's Guide Network Edition 6.0, Rev 1