How do I migrate local unix user/accounts to IDM server ?

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We have many Red Hat 7 machines and we manage users/accounts locally. We built a test IPA server and a test IPA client. Both test servers are on Red Hat 7.2. I want to migrate users/accounts/passwords from the test server to IPA server. How can I do that and what are the steps for that ?

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This might help. migration plan from local accounts

1) Create a user in IdM with same name as a local user (if it doesn't already exist)
2) Find all files owned by local user and replace UID/GID with the ones from IPA user with the same name
3) Remove local user
4) Repeat for all local users
5) Repeat on every machine

Sam, Thanks for the reply. All I am trying to do with my IDM server is manage all local UNIX users's passwords centrally from IDM. For example; we have 250 plus RHEL servers and right now, we are managing local users on those servers manually ( going to each server for password change, adding users etc. ) This is where I was getting confused like how do I setup IDM server so that I just need to change password for a user ( let's say user 'psmith' is on all those 250 servers ) on IDM main server and it gets applied to user 'psmith' on all of those 250 servers. So, My question is how do I do that with user 'psmith' since the user is already on all of those boxes?

Sam, Thanks for the reply. All I am trying to do with my IDM server is manage all local UNIX users's passwords centrally from IDM. For example; we have 250 plus RHEL servers and right now, we are managing local users on those servers manually ( going to each server for password change, adding users etc. ) This is where I was getting confused like how do I setup IDM server so that I just need to change password for a user ( let's say user 'psmith' is on all those 250 servers ) on IDM main server and it gets applied to user 'psmith' on all of those 250 servers. So, My question is how do I do that with user 'psmith' since the user is already on all of those boxes?

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