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Description of problem:

Replica removal steps in this link:

http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6-Beta/html/Identity_Management_Guide/removing-replica.html

contain an invalid and dangerous Step 3 - running the set of "ipa-replica-manage del SERVER" removes  all replication agreements and data about SERVER, which will practically disable all installed replicas but the one it is running on.

I assume that originally this should have been an "ipa-replica-manage disconnect SERVER" command.

Since a part of "ipa-replica-manage del SERVER" command is a connection to all active replicas and removing agreements between such replica and deleted SERVER, I think these steps should be enough:

3) On another IPA server, remove all replication agreements and data about the replica:
[root@ipaserver ~]# ipa-replica-manage del replica.example.com

4) Uninstall the replica.
[root@replica ~]# ipa-server-install --uninstall -U

We should also probably add a note about ipa-csreplica-manage which can be used to remove replication agreements for the CA Directory Server instance - if the replica has a CA configured.

Updated the removal steps:
http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Identity_Management_Guide/removing-replica.html

Verified the information in Comment#0 and #2 has been incorperated into the guide:

http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Identity_Management_Guide/removing-replica.html

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