Recently our team builted around 60+ DR servers in our new datacenter and I thought to register them in SQL management studio, of course it will take some time to register them all together and thought that if a script does the same that would be wonderful.
After searching the indernet for sometime I found a peice of code and tweaked it to register a server and getting an input parameter from a text file.
Here is the code.
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add-pssnapin SqlServerProviderSnapin100
add-pssnapin SqlServerCmdletSnapin100
$readbuffer=get-content -path $filename
$i=0;
foreach ($line in $readbuffer)
{
write-output "$i : $line"
sl "SQLSERVER:\SQLRegistration\Database Engine Server Group\SQLDBOps" ;
##remove-Item $(Encode-Sqlname "$line") -Force
new-Item $(Encode-Sqlname "$line") -itemtype registration -Value “server=$line;integrated security=true”;
$i++;
}
remove-pssnapin SqlServerProviderSnapin100
remove-pssnapin SqlServerCmdletSnapin100
SQLInstance2
SQLInstance3
SQLInstance4
SQLInstance5
SQLInstance6
SQLInstance7
SQLInstance8
SQLInstance9
SQLInstance10
param (
[string] $filename)
add-pssnapin SqlServerProviderSnapin100
add-pssnapin SqlServerCmdletSnapin100
$readbuffer=get-content -path $filename
$i=0;
foreach ($line in $readbuffer)
{
write-output "$i : $line"
sl "SQLSERVER:\SQLRegistration\Database Engine Server Group\SQLDBOps" ;
##remove-Item $(Encode-Sqlname "$line") -Force
new-Item $(Encode-Sqlname "$line") -itemtype registration -Value “server=$line;integrated security=true”;
$i++;
}
remove-pssnapin SqlServerProviderSnapin100
remove-pssnapin SqlServerCmdletSnapin100
In the path name I’ve specified \SQLDBOps is which I’ve created under Registered ServersàDatabase EngineàLocal Server Groups and the \SQLRegistration\Database Engine Server Group is the default existing Local Servers Groups.
Code snap
Save the above script in a poweshell file as RegisterServer.ps1 and save your SQL instance names in a txt file as below.
SQLInstance1SQLInstance2
SQLInstance3
SQLInstance4
SQLInstance5
SQLInstance6
SQLInstance7
SQLInstance8
SQLInstance9
SQLInstance10
Open the Powershell command window and navigate to the path where the script and text file exists and execute the file like .\RegisterServer.ps1 SQLSrvrs.txt, the servers will be registered under your group as below.
