Hello, I am trying to deploy an additional read-only replica (aka. 'consumer') in a single-master dirsrv environment. The master, and the other pre-existing consumer servers, are all 'fedora-ds' running on Fedora 7. I'm trying to add a consumer running on Centos 5.5. Ultimately, I intend to replace the Fedora ds servers with Centos dirsrv servers. I'm trying to deploy the Centos dirsrv consumer without running the dirsrv-admin. I've been following the directions at http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Directory_Server/8.1/html/Administration_Guide/index.html , specifically in chapter 8. When I get to "8.7.2. Configuring Consumers from the Command Line" ( http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Directory_Server/8.1/html/Administration_Guide/Managing_Replication-Configuring-Replication-cmd.html#Configuring-Replication-Consumers-cmd ), I run into problems: 1) ldapmodify complains that I'm missing the required attribute 'nsds5replicaId'. So I add it, and guess at the replicaID number (cuz the guide says nothing about the ID). 2) even after resolving issue 1) above, I get an error: "ldap_add: No such object" The return value of the ldapmodify command is 32. The changetype of the operation is 'add', so ldapmodify knows it's trying to add an object. The input I pass to ldapmodify is just like shown in the guide, but w. the addition of the nsds5replicaId attribute mentioned in issue 1) above: dn: cn=replica,cn="dc=infinityhealthcare,dc=com",cn=mapping tree,cn=config changetype: add objectclass: top objectclass: nsds5replica objectclass: extensibleObject cn: replica nsds5replicaroot: dc=infinityhealthcare,dc=com nsds5replicatype: 2 nsDS5ReplicaId: 65535 nsds5ReplicaBindDN: uid=RManager,cn=config nsds5flags: 0 Any idea what's wrong? Do I have to first create dn: cn="dc=infinityhealthcare,dc=com",cn=mapping tree,cn=config ? If so, how? The guide doesn't seem to have a step for that, except for when adding a 'hub' dirsrv. However, I mean to add a 'consumer', not a 'hub'. Thanks, Jon