@Gerhardus - Thanks for your help. I inherited the setup. 2 servers with multi-master replication on RH 5.6 / 5.7. The new replacement server will be CentOS 6.2. Version info follows.

The “old” RH servers:

[root@x-389-01 src]# ns-slapd -v

389 Project

389-Directory/1.2.2 B2009.237.2042

[root@x-389-02 ~]# ns-slapd -v

389 Project

389-Directory/1.2.2 B2009.237.2042

The CentOS server:

[root@x-389-01_v ~]# ns-slapd -v

389 Project

389-Directory/1.2.10.3 B2012.065.2318

Mike

From: 389-users-bounces@lists.fedoraproject.org [mailto:389-users-bounces@lists.fedoraproject.org] On Behalf Of Gerhardus Geldenhuis
Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2012 10:23 AM
To: General discussion list for the 389 Directory server project.
Subject: Re: [389-users] Replacing a DS server

Hi

Its difficult to say wiithout knowing how you have configured your two servers...

In setups that I have had previosly I just rebuild the server (OS) and install 389.

before I continue I remove the "old" server from the config database as that was multimastered as well.

I then continue the 389 registration by running setup-ds.pl

I have lost my exact steps that I have followed but basically if you have a multimaster environment the new server will just be viewed as a very out of date master and for a while will be busy. You can populate it from the gui which will repopulate the database.