rename domain : fails

Hi all,
I am migrating a domain.no to our zimbra server. In order for us to be able to send mail to domain.no during the migration, I had planned to migrate to domain-mig.no and then rename domain-mig.no to domain.no

Renaming domains does not seem to work properly.
Renaming works when the domain is empty:

Code:

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prov> gaa domain.md
prov> rd domain.md domain-foo.md
domain domain.md renamed to domain-foo.md

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But a domain with 100 users (and no mail) fails.

Code:

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prov> rd domain-mig.no domain.no
Exception in thread "main" java.util.MissingFormatArgumentException: Format specifier 's'
        at java.util.Formatter.format(Formatter.java:2429)
        at java.util.Formatter.format(Formatter.java:2364)
        at java.lang.String.format(String.java:2558)
        at com.zimbra.cs.account.ldap.RenameDomain.warn(RenameDomain.java:807)
        at com.zimbra.cs.account.ldap.RenameDomain.warn(RenameDomain.java:802)
        at com.zimbra.cs.account.ldap.RenameDomain.access$400(RenameDomain.java:53)
        at com.zimbra.cs.account.ldap.RenameDomain$RenameDomainVisitor.fixupForeignTarget(RenameDomain.java:747)
        at com.zimbra.cs.account.ldap.RenameDomain$RenameDomainVisitor.handleForeignAlias(RenameDomain.java:713)
        at com.zimbra.cs.account.ldap.RenameDomain$RenameDomainVisitor.visit(RenameDomain.java:451)
        at com.zimbra.cs.account.ldap.LdapProvisioning.searchObjects(LdapProvisioning.java:1115)
        at com.zimbra.cs.account.ldap.LdapProvisioning.searchObjects(LdapProvisioning.java:1055)
        at com.zimbra.cs.account.ldap.RenameDomain.execute(RenameDomain.java:116)
        at com.zimbra.cs.account.ldap.LdapProvisioning.renameDomain(LdapProvisioning.java:2177)
        at com.zimbra.cs.account.ProvUtil.doRenameDomain(ProvUtil.java:873)
        at com.zimbra.cs.account.ProvUtil.execute(ProvUtil.java:676)
        at com.zimbra.cs.account.ProvUtil.interactive(ProvUtil.java:2028)
        at com.zimbra.cs.account.ProvUtil.main(ProvUtil.java:2157)

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Restarting the rename will fail too:

Code:

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prov> rd domain-mig.no domain.no
[] WARN: domain domain-mig.no is shutdown
ERROR: service.FAILURE (system failure: unknown phase: ,FIX_FOREIGN_ALIASES) (cause: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException No enum const class com.zimbra.cs.account.ldap.RenameDomain$RenamePhase.,FIX_FOREIGN_ALIASES)

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Now you have two domains domain.no and domain-mig.no in a shutdown, locked state. There doesn't seem to be any way to get out of this mess except for deleting the two domains and starting from scratch.

I am aware of other domain rename issues ( Rename Issues ), but this one does not seem to be documented anywhere.

Have you had similar experiences with domain renaming?
Is there a way to unlock the domains after a failed rename? Why is the rename failing? What are my alternatives?

Code:

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# zmcontrol -v

Release 5.0.16_GA_2921.RHEL5_64_20090429021719 RHEL5_64 NETWORK edition

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Tia,
Kacper Wysocki
Infrastructure Consultant

You didn't run the correct command for renaming, it should be:

Code:

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zmprov -l rd testold.com testnew.com

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If you look at the '-l' option in "zmprov help commands" you'll see it's important.

Quote:

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renameDomain(rd) {domain|id} {newDomain}
-- NOTE: renameDomain can only be used with "zmprov -l/--ldap"

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Code:

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zmprov -l md domain.com zimbraDomainStatus active

zmmailboxdctl restart

zmprov gd domain.com | grep Status

zmprov -l gd domain.com | grep Status

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The last two commands should return 'active'.

Thanks for your reply pheonix, but I sure did run zmprov -l.
Had I forgotten to do so, zmprov would have notified me:

Code:

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# su - zimbra -c 'zmprov'
prov> rd domain.no domain-mig.no
renameDomain can only be used with  "zmprov -l/--ldap"

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I tried your suggested fix:

Code:

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# su - zimbra -c 'zmprov -l'
prov> md domain-mig.no zimbraDomainStatus active
ERROR: service.INVALID_REQUEST (invalid request: domain domain-mig.no is being renamed, cannot change zimbraDomainStatus)

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It seems that there is some sort of internal flag that disallows changes to the domain.

I also tried deleting the domain:

Code:

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# su - zimbra -c 'zmprov -l'
prov> gaa nr-mig.no
prov> md domain-mig.no zimbraNotebookAccount ''
prov> dd domain-mig.no
ERROR: account.DOMAIN_NOT_EMPTY (domain not empty: domain-mig.no. You may beed to remove the value in zimbraNotebookAccount attribute before deleting accounts in this domain.)

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this too seems to fail. It is turning into quite the problem :-P

Was there ever resolution here? I am going to be doing this soon and want to avoid total disaster.

Nope, the resolution was to avoid renaming the domain altogether, and to work around the limitation by creating the domain with the following property:

Quote:

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zimbraMailTransport: smtp:customer-mta.customer-domain.com:25

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during the migration.