Create 30000 accounts as quick as possible?

[tiger2000]

Dear All,

for a urgent testing case, we need to create thousands of accounts in ZCS and do email-sending test. I'm running a script something like below for this purpose :

while [ $count -le 30000 ]; do
zmprov ca guest$count$mydomain 111111
done


but it's kind of slow.
Can anyone provide is there fast way to create 30000 accounts in ZCS?

Thanks in advance.

[mmorse]

Every time you run zmprov or zmmailbox, it has to crank up a new JVM thread which is a lot of overhead; however, you can run it in batch mode.
ie: It would be better to aggregate a list of actions and then send them all to one instance of zmprov:

nano /tmp/script.sh

#!/bin/bash
COUNTER=0
while [ $COUNTER -lt 30000 ]; do
echo "ca testing$COUNTER@domain.com password" 1>>/tmp/provision.txt
let COUNTER=COUNTER+1 
done

chmod 744 script.sh
./script.sh
zmprov < /tmp/provision.txt

Or zmprov -f /tmp/provision.txt

Infact it may be faster to do it via LDAP directly (zmprov -l < provision.txt) instead of mailboxd/Java/SOAP; though I haven't done an analysis in this case - some commands will need to talk to the mailbox server anyways.

Just ran it on a vm with 512mb ram ~1ghz proc dedicated to it (ZCS 6.0.0 D2, all default settings, no Java/LDAP tweaks):
- Less than 30sec to make the .txt
- Creates roughly 10k accounts every 10 minutes (ran zmaccts every so often in other terminal)