Environment
Novell Open Enterprise Server 11 (OES 11) Linux Support Pack 2
Novell Open Enterprise Server 11 (OES 11) Linux Support Pack 1
Novell Open Enterprise Server 2 (OES 2) Linux Support Pack 3
SUSE
Situation
Novell-dhcp service was not starting and failed with the following error message:
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Server 4.2.4-P2
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LDAPS session successfully enabled to 192.168.103.50:636
Error: Cannot find dhcpService DN 'cn=DHCPService,o=novell' with server reference. Please update the LDAP server entry 'cn=DHCP_server,o=novell'
Configuration file errors encountered -- exiting
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Credentials stored in CASA were correct and other services using the same OESCommonProxy user and password were loading without any problems. After changing user/password in CASA credentials and deleting server object the dhcp service still failed to load with same message.
exiting.
Resolution
dhcpService object was corrupted. As a test, a service object was created and linked with the correct server and locator object and then the novell-dhcp service was reloaded. To resolve the issue using DNS-DHCP Java Management console:
1) Export the current service configuration.
2) Delete current dhcpService object
3) Import the previously exported content
4) Start novell-dhcp service.
Cause
Power outage the day before appeared to have corrupted the dhcpService object.