IPAM registration using powershell does not commit to DNS

Question

I am working on having IPAM become a valuable tool in the organization I work, and as part of that I am setting up a registration Gateway for Our Developers and their VMs, and the gatway invokes the PowerShell script With the proper command to register in
IPAM including all nescessary dns information. The problem is that the registration Works like a charm, With an exception for DNS registration.
In the GUI you have the option to Select "register automatically in dns", but this option is not documented in the PowerShell command and in in IPAM it just says "not attempted"
My syntax for the powershel registration is like this:
Add-IpamAddress -IpAddress 127.0.0.3 -AssignmentType Static -DeviceName testreg -ForwardLookupZone blastlan.com -ForwardLookupPrimaryServer anakin.blastlan.com
How can i force the registration to the DNS? I have currently solved this using the dns server functions together With the ipam registration, but this seems a but idiotic as I want a single command for this registration, as well as using the IPAM Access
to define what ranges the Gateway should allow the users to register within.

Answer 1

Hi Hawkie,
Did the option "register automatically in dns" is the option in the screenshot below:
If so, I haven't found this option in IPAM cmdlets, as a workaround, you can register DNS record for IP address on client as the script below, you can run this script on client and connect remote IPAM server:
<pre class="brush:powershell">##Check the following items: IPAM Server Name, Start and End IP Addresses of IPAM Range,
##Name of network adapter, Subnet Prefix Length, Default Gateway, DNS Server Addresses
##Requires Powershell 4.0 or higher
##Create a Common Information Model connection to IPAM Server
$cim = new-cimsession -ComputerName IPAM
##Find a free IP Address from the IPAM Server. Be sure to use the addresses in your range from the IPAM Server
$FreeIP = Get-IpamRange -StartIPAddress 10.10.50.10 -EndIPAddress 10.10.50.69 -CimSession $cim | Find-IpamFreeAddress | select-object -expandproperty IPAddress
##add the IP Address to the IPAM Server
$servername = hostname
Add-IpamAddress -CimSession $cim -IpAddress $FreeIP -devicename $servername
##Remove the CIM Session (logout)
Remove-CimSession -CimSession $cim
##Get the Network Adapter named "Ethernet"
$adapter = Get-NetAdapter -name Ethernet
##Disable DHCP
$adapter | Set-NetIPinterface -dhcp disabled
##Set New IP AddressString
$adapter | New-NetIPAddress -addressfamily IPv4 -IPAddress $FreeIP -PrefixLength 24 -type Unicast -DefaultGateway 10.10.50.254
##Set DNS Server
set-dnsclientserveraddress -InterfaceAlias ethernet -ServerAddresses 10.10.50.12, 10.10.50.9
##Register DNS
Ipconfig /registerdns
Refer to:
Dynamically Assigned Static IP Addresses…Huh?
If there is anything else regarding this issue, please feel free to post back.
Best Regards,
Anna Wang