IPA / IdM ipa-dns-install command fails with exception: ObjectclassViolation: missing attribute "idnsSOAserial" required by object class "idnsZone"

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Issue

The IPA / IdM command ipa-dns-install may fail with the following error:

Configuring DNS (named)
  [1/8]: adding NS record to the zone
Unexpected error - see /var/log/ipaserver-install.log for details:
ObjectclassViolation: missing attribute "idnsSOAserial" required by object class "idnsZone"

And in the IPA logs:

2014-05-13T17:38:12Z INFO The ipa-dns-install command failed, exception: ObjectclassViolation: missing attribute "idnsSOAserial" required by object class "idnsZone"

Environment

Red Hat Enterprise 6

ipa-server-3.0.0-37.el6.x86_64

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