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Product: Red Hat Directory Server
Version: 8.0 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Update 5

Creating new directory server instances can be done from the command line, with the script setup-ds-admin.pl as described at: 6.2.1. Creating a New Directory Server Instance
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/dir-server/install/8.0/Installation_Guide-Advanced_Configuration-Making-DS.html#Installation_Guide-Advanced_Configuration-Making-new-DS-Instance

• If you are unable to register a new Red Hat Directory Server 8.0 instance with the script setup-ds-admin.pl to a remote configuration server, build:
  Red Hat-Directory/8.0.0 B2007.353.1757
  And are getting this error message:

Error adding entry 'cn=Red Hat Directory Server, cn=Server Group,
cn=host.example.com, ou=example.com, o=NetscapeRoot'. Error: No such object
Could not register the directory server with the configuration directory server.

• Create the following 2 entries on the configuration Directory Server:
  

dn: cn=host.example.com, ou=example.com, o=NetscapeRoot
objectclass: top
objectclass: nsHost
objectclass: groupOfUniqueNames
cn: host.example.com
nsosversion: output of uname -a on the machine
nshardwareplatform: arch e.g. i386 or x86_64 or ...
serverHostName: host.example.com

dn: cn=Server Group, cn=host.example.com, ou=example.com, o=NetscapeRoot
objectclass: top
objectclass: nsAdminGroup
objectclass: nsDirectoryInfo
objectclass: groupOfUniqueNames
nsAdminGroupName: Server Group
nsDirectoryInfoRef: cn=User Directory, ou=Global Preferences, ou=example.com,
o=NetscapeRoot

Bugzilla reference 431103