389-console question

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Redhat 6.4 with RHDS 9.1.0

We have 14 LDAP servers in our enterprise. When I bring up the 389-console from my Linux desktop, I connect to the ldap-srv01 and the Admin Console comes up nice and pretty. How do I add multiple servers on that page so that I can manage them all from on GUI? Currently, I have to exit the console and login again specifying the URL of say server #2.

Thanks for your help

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SOLVED: 389-admin version 1.1.36 brought in a capability to register remote LDAP URLs. http://directory.fedoraproject.org/docs/389ds/design/console-remote-reg-design.html

But you can also do the following (which I found is what the register-ds-admin.pl update in 1.1.36 does):
Decide which server will be your admin server. In my example, it will be ldap-srv01. All the other ldap servers will be registered with ldap-srv01.
Go to the remote LDAP machine and export a subtree of the ou=NetscapeRoot.
For example, cn=ldap-srv02,ou=foo.com,o=NetscapeRoot
On ldap-srv01, import the database ldif from above. When you open your o=NetscapeRoot, ou= foo.com, you should now see ldap-srv01 and ldap-srv02 listed.

Now when you connect to ldap-srv01's admin server via 389-console, your first window will now have all the servers you wish to view and maintain.

Good luck
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Hi Sean,

Thanks for coming back to share the solution.

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