Creating a hostrecord using powershell [ Edited ]

[#1]

Basically I am stuck at creating a next available host record via powershell.

This is how my script looks like:

if (-not ([System.Management.Automation.PSTypeName]'ServerCertificateValidationCallback').Type)
{
$certCallback = @"
using System;
using System.Net;
using System.Net.Security;
using System.Security.Cryptography.X509Certificates;
public class ServerCertificateValidationCallback
{
public static void Ignore()
{
if(ServicePointManager.ServerCertificateValidationCallback ==null)
{
ServicePointManager.ServerCertificateValidationCallback +=
delegate
(
Object obj,
X509Certificate certificate,
X509Chain chain,
SslPolicyErrors errors
)
{
return true;
};
}
}
}
"@
Add-Type $certCallback
}
[ServerCertificateValidationCallback]::Ignore()

##Authentication
$pwd = ConvertTo-SecureString "infoblox" -AsPlainText -Force
$creds = New-Object Management.Automation.PSCredential ('admin', $pwd)

##API variables
$Scope = ""
$Scope = "172.16.1.0&ip_address%3C=172.16.1.254"
$Allnetwork_ref = Invoke-RestMethod "https://192.168.80.5/wapi/v2.11.3/ipv4address?ip_address%3E=$Scope&_return_as_object=1" -Credential $creds -Method get | ConvertTo-Json
$Allnetwork_refObject = ConvertFrom-Json -InputObject $Allnetwork_ref
$Networkref = $Allnetwork_refObject.result | where {$_.status -eq 'Unused'} | Select-Object -First 1
$Networkref.ip_address
$Networkref._ref

---end first part - 

------ begin second part POST -------

$reservation_details = @{
ipv4addr = "$Networkref.ip_address"
name="test2.thusi.local"}

$body = $reservation_details | ConvertTo-Json
Invoke-RestMethod -Uri $uri -Method POST -Credential $creds -ContentType 'application/json' -Body $body

What I want to achieve is to create the next available address within the scope. I have tried many ways, but couldn't be able to get it working.

Thank you guys in advance.

[#2]

Never mind guys;

I have found it and gave some extra boost to the default script. 

Success guys with developing it further.

function Ignore-SelfSignedCerts
{
try
{
Write-Host "Adding TrustAllCertsPolicy type." -ForegroundColor White
Add-Type -TypeDefinition @"
using System.Net;
using System.Security.Cryptography.X509Certificates;
public class TrustAllCertsPolicy : ICertificatePolicy
{
public bool CheckValidationResult(
ServicePoint srvPoint, X509Certificate certificate,
WebRequest request, int certificateProblem)
{
return true;
}
}
"@
Write-Host "TrustAllCertsPolicy type added." -ForegroundColor White
}
catch
{
Write-Host $_ -ForegroundColor "Yellow"
}
[System.Net.ServicePointManager]::CertificatePolicy = New-Object TrustAllCertsPolicy
} Ignore-SelfSignedCerts

$username = read-host "Please enter your name:"
$password = read-host "Enter a Password:" -assecurestring
$credential = New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSCredential($username,$password)

##API variables
$Scope = ""
$Scope = "172.16.1.0&ip_address%3C=172.16.1.254"
$Allnetwork_ref = Invoke-RestMethod "https://i1.1.1.1/wapi/v2.6.1/ipv4address?ip_address%3E=$Scope&_return_as_object=1" -Credential $credential -Method get | ConvertTo-Json
$Allnetwork_refObject = ConvertFrom-Json -InputObject $Allnetwork_ref
$Networkref = $Allnetwork_refObject.result | where {$_.status -eq 'Unused'} | Select-Object -First 1
$Networkref.ip_address
$Networkref._ref

[void] [System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("System.Drawing")
[void] [System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("System.Windows.Forms")

$objForm = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.Form
$objForm.Text = "Data Entry Form"
$objForm.Size = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(300,200)
$objForm.StartPosition = "CenterScreen"

$objForm.KeyPreview = $True
$objForm.Add_KeyDown({
if ($_.KeyCode -eq "Enter" -or $_.KeyCode -eq "Escape"){
$objForm.Close()
}
})

$OKButton = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.Button
$OKButton.Location = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(75,120)
$OKButton.Size = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(75,23)
$OKButton.Text = "OK"
$OKButton.Add_Click({$objForm.Close()})
$objForm.Controls.Add($OKButton)

$CancelButton = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.Button
$CancelButton.Location = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(150,120)
$CancelButton.Size = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(75,23)
$CancelButton.Text = "Cancel"
$CancelButton.Add_Click({$objForm.Close()})
$objForm.Controls.Add($CancelButton)

$objLabel = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.Label
$objLabel.Location = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(10,10)
$objLabel.Size = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(280,20)
$objLabel.Text = "Create Host record:"
$objForm.Controls.Add($objLabel)

$objLabel = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.Label
$objLabel.Location = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(10,30)
$objLabel.Size = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(280,20)
$objLabel.Text = "Please enter the FQDN below:"
$objForm.Controls.Add($objLabel)

$objTextBox = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.TextBox
$objTextBox.Location = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(10,50)
$objTextBox.Size = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(260,20)
$objForm.Controls.Add($objTextBox)

$objLabel2 = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.Label
$objLabel2.Location = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(10,70)
$objLabel2.Size = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(280,20)
$objLabel2.Text = "Please enter the IP Address below:"
$objForm.Controls.Add($objLabel2)

$objTextBox2 = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.TextBox
$objTextBox2.Location = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(10,90)
$objTextBox2.Size = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(260,20)
$objForm.Controls.Add($objTextBox2)

$objForm.Topmost = $True

$objForm.Add_Shown({$objForm.Activate()})
[void]$objForm.ShowDialog()

$objTextBox.Text
$objTextBox2.Text

$host_details = @{
name= $objTextBox.Text
ipv4addrs=@(@{ipv4addr= $objTextBox2.Text})}

$url = "https://1.1.1.1/wapi/v2.6.1/record:host?_return_as_object=1"

$body = $host_details | ConvertTo-Json

Invoke-RestMethod -Uri $url -Method POST -Credential $credential -ContentType 'application/json' -Body $body

[#3]

Hi,

Have you tried the WAPI call to automatically get the next available IP while creating the host record like this:

$headers = New-Object "System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary[[String],[String]]"
$headers.Add("Authorization", "Basic auth")
$headers.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")

$body = "{
`n	`"name`":`"wapi.info.com`",
`n	`"ipv4addrs`":
`n	[
`n		{
`n			`"ipv4addr`":
`n			{
`n				`"_object_function`":`"next_available_ip`",
`n				`"_parameters`":
`n				{
`n					`"exclude`":[`"10.10.10.1`",`"10.10.10.2`"]
`n				},
`n				`"_result_field`":`"ips`",
`n				`"_object`" : `"network`",
`n				`"_object_parameters`":
`n				{
`n					`"network`":`"10.10.10.0/24`"
`n				}
`n			}
`n		}
`n	]
`n}"

$response = Invoke-RestMethod 'https://grid-master/wapi/v2.11.3/record:host?_return_fields%2B=name,ipv4addrs' -Method 'POST' -Headers $headers -Body $body
$response | ConvertTo-Json

Regards,

Krishna Vasudevan

[#4]

I'm trying to pull the next available IP with creating a reservation or record. Is there a way to achieve this? I'd like to validate that the IP is not in use by doing a ping and nslookup first before creating the reservation.

[#5]

Typo... I meant to write "pull the IP without creating the reservation"

[#6]

Yes you can do this by using the next_available_ip function against the parent network.