How to Start, stop and restart Zimbra Service

This is first command in Zimbra mail server which we need to care about zimbra server service status. All services should be running on server. If any of service get stop working than your mail server will stop working . In this troutorial we will look how to check zimbra status, stop, start and restart service.

Check Zimbra Service status using zmcontrol command:

Login with zimbra user

[root@server ~]# su – zimbra

Run command to check status

[zimbra@server ~]$ zmcontrol status

Host server.example.com

        amavis                  Running

        antispam               Running

        antivirus               Running

        ldap                      Running

        logger                   Running

        mailbox                Running

        memcached          Running

        mta                       Running

        opendkim             Running

        proxy                    Running

        service webapp     Running

        snmp                     Running

        spell                      Running

        stats                       Running

        zimbra webapp      Running

        zimbraAdmin webapp     Running

        zimlet webapp         Running

        zmconfigd               Running

Note: As you seen above all services are running properly on ZCS 8.6 version.

Run command to stop all zimbra service  ( If require )

[zimbra@server ~]$ zmcontrol stop

Host server.example.com

        Stopping vmware-ha...skipped.

        Stopping zmconfigd...Done.

        Stopping zimlet webapp...Done.

        Stopping zimbraAdmin webapp...Done.

        Stopping zimbra webapp...Done.

        Stopping service webapp...Done.

        Stopping stats...Done.

        Stopping mta...Done.

        Stopping spell...Done.

        Stopping snmp...Done.

        Stopping cbpolicyd...Done.

        Stopping archiving...Done.

        Stopping opendkim...Done.

        Stopping amavis...Done.

        Stopping antivirus...Done.

        Stopping antispam...Done.

        Stopping proxy...Done.

        Stopping memcached...Done.

        Stopping mailbox...Done.

        Stopping logger...Done.

        Stopping dnscache...Done.

        Stopping ldap...Done.

Run command to start zimbra service

[zimbra@server ~]$ zmcontrol start

Host server.example.com

        Starting zmconfigd...Done.

        Starting logger...Done.

        Starting mailbox...Done.

        Starting memcached...Done.

        Starting proxy...Done.

        Starting amavis...Done.

        Starting antispam...Done.

        Starting antivirus...Done.

        Starting opendkim...Done.

        Starting snmp...Done.

        Starting spell...Done.

        Starting mta...Done.

        Starting stats...Done.

        Starting service webapp...Done.

        Starting zimbra webapp...Done.

        Starting zimbraAdmin webapp...Done.

        Starting zimlet webapp...Done.

Run command to Restart zimbra service

[zimbra@server ~]$ zmcontrol restart

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