Bulk Provision on specific server node

[jlearmonth]

Does anyone know if there is a way to provision multiple accounts on a specific server?
If I create accounts individually they are created on the server I am logged into, if I run the bulk provision by importing a CSV file all the accounts are created on the main server and I have to manually move each account to the node I need them on.
Is this by design (an important reason behind it)? or is there a way around this?
It is very time consuming to move 100's off accounts one at a time.

Thanks

[raj]

I hve done this in SOAP api..but not in CLI..qucik output from "zmprov ca" says:

[zimbra@zimbra1 ~]$ zmprov ca
usage: createAccount(ca) {name@domain} {password} [attr1 value1 [attr2 value2.. .]]

zmprov [args] [cmd] [cmd-args ...]

-h/--help display usage
-f/--file use file as input stream
-s/--server {host}[:{port}] server hostname and optional port
-l/--ldap provision via LDAP instead of SOAP
-L/--logpropertyfile log4j property file, valid only with -l
-a/--account {name} account name to auth as
-p/--password {pass} password for account
-P/--passfile {file} read password from file
-z/--zadmin use zimbra admin name/password from


so may be you want to use he server switch and see if the user gets created on that server.
something like:

zmprov ca name@domain.com password -s host: port


* host: port there is NO space after colon..i just did so it dont show up as smily :P
Raj

[raj]

in SOAP api i do the following

<CreateAccountRequest xmlns="urn:zimbraAdmin">
<name>test@test.com</name>"
<password>mypassword</password>
<a xmlns="" n="displayName">Test Name</a>"
<a xmlns="" n="givenName">Name</a>"
<a xmlns="" n="zimbraMailQuota">10240</a>"
<a xmlns="" n="zimbraMailHost">zimbrhost5.domain.com</a>
</CreateAccountRequest>


Raj

[jlearmonth]

Thanks for the reply, I am not familiar with SOAP, maybe I should be. Is there any way to do this using the web interface "Bulk Provision" tool?

[raj]

if you have 2 mailbox server i.e: mailserver1.domain.com and mailserver2.domain.com
you can log into any one of the server and run your bulk commans on command line or in a .sh script
command to create 1 user on MAILSERVER2:

zmprov ca useronmailserver2@domain.com TestPassword zimbraMailHost mailserver2.domain.com


zimbraMailHost is th attribute you were looking for which tell the server to create this users mailbox on mailserver2.

All you need to do is create a file with 1 line each like above for each user and run once and it will create all the users for you.

* i dont know if admin tool takes other attibutes like "zimbraMailHost" and stuff

Raj