Further update:
SSL is working fine it's just the console not playing ball over SSL for some reason.
I've been using LDAP Admin (
http://www.ldapadmin.org/) as an alternative front end
which works fine.
I am still in a bit of a bind (no pun intended) as I don't have the original admin
user setup on the LDAP server by the previous admin and only documentation I've found
points to needing to do this via the console. Can't use LDAP Admin as the entry is not
stored within LDAP itself.
I need this password to setup replication so could do with getting the password reset via
another means if possible.