Replication Zones
Before you can start using Historical Mail/Email Archival, you must set up Replication Zones. Replication Zones allow you to associate specific mail servers with a preferred series of VaultBoxes within your environment. For smaller environments, there may only be a single Replication Zone and all mail servers are members of this zone. Administrators of larger environments can create multiple zones to segment and load balance replication traffic to specific VaultBoxes.
After Replication Zones have been created and all servers have been assigned to a zone, a corresponding DNS Forward Lookup Zone should be created in the environment for each Replication Zone defined within AMS. Within that Forward Lookup Zone, MX records should be created using the fully qualified domain name of the VaultBoxes using appropriate weighting of records to create the preferred routing topology.
NOTE
- Replication Zone routing corresponds to the server that bifurcates the message (typically the first mail server to touch a message), not the server on which a particular user resides.
- Zones define internal DNS domains for use by mail servers during message replication. When you add or change a zone, be sure you make corresponding changes in your DNS configuration.
To assign servers to replication zones:
- From the AMS Admin Console, select Historical Mail.
- Click Replication Zones.
- Click Add new zone...
- In the text box that appears, enter the name of the zone you want to add.
- Click Submit. The newly added zone appears above the Add new zone... button.
- In the Unassigned Server Name section of the Zones page, add servers to the new zone by clicking the appropriate Add to zone (zone name) link.
Replication Zone configuration