Managed Server Does not Come Up with Empty Initial Replica

While trying to start managed server from a remote machine, we see the below errors

<Critical> <WebLogicServer> <BEA-000386> <Server subsystem failed. Reason: weblogic.ldap.EmbeddedLDAPException: Empty initial replica
weblogic.ldap.EmbeddedLDAPException: Empty initial replica
     at weblogic.ldap.EmbeddedLDAP.getInitialReplicaFromAdminServer(EmbeddedLDAP.java:1301)
     at weblogic.ldap.EmbeddedLDAP.start(EmbeddedLDAP.java:221)
     at weblogic.t3.srvr.SubsystemRequest.run(SubsystemRequest.java:64)
     at weblogic.work.SelfTuningWorkManagerImpl$WorkAdapterImpl.run(SelfTuningWorkManagerImpl.java:516)
     at weblogic.work.ExecuteThread.execute(ExecuteThread.java:201)
     Truncated. see log file for complete stacktrace

Along with  this error, we have also seen the error which says :

"Unable to Initiate Empty Initial Replica"

One of the possible causes of this issue is that in case your environment is a multi node cluster, then this specific error is observed if the clock of the nodes are not in sync with each other.

Resolution :
Work with your system admin and make sure the clock of all the node of the weblogic domain are in sync with each other.

Then try starting the server. This should fix the issue.