[Freeipa-users] Recovering from an IPA master server failure

[Martin Basti]

On 27.05.2016 23:11, Michael Rainey (Contractor) wrote:
>
> Greetings community,
>
> I've run into an interesting problem which may be old hat to all of 
> you.  I was working to bring down my first IPA server and did it 
> improperly.  It was a rookie mistake, but I'm willing to view it as an 
> exercise in recovering from a massive master server failure.
>
> The original master server is gone with no way of recovering and I 
> have managed to replace the master server with one of my replicas, but 
> I find myself in a situation where I cannot remove the original master 
> server from the directory.  It is still seen as a master server and 
> the webUI will not let me delete the system.  Is there a process 
> somewhere that will walk me through the process of demoting the server 
> so I can delete it from the directory?
>
> Your help is greatly appreciated.
>
> -- 
> *Michael Rainey*
>
>

Hello,

have you tried ipa-replica-manage del <old server hostname> [--cleanup] 
[--force]  on the current replicas?

Martin
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