How To Use the Netcup DNS Plugin

This plugin works against the Netcup domain registrar. It is assumed that you have already setup an account and registered the domains you will be working against. The domains must not be using custom DNS servers.

Setup

Login to the Customer Control Panel and navigate to Master Data - API.

In the Creating an API Key section, agree to the TOS and click API key Create. Record the new value that appears in the API keys section. This will be the username for the credential object we'll setup later. There can be many API keys associated with the account.

In the API management section, click Generate API Password and then click OK. Record the password value that is displayed. It cannot be retrieved later and it will be the password for the credential object we'll setup later. Generating a new API password immediately deactivates the previous one.

Using the Plugin

The username that you use to login to the Control Panel is your customer number and is used with the NetcupCustNumber parameter. The API Key and Password you created earlier will be used as the Username and Password for a PSCredential parameter called NetcupAPICredential.

Warning

DNS updates in Netcup take a long time to propagate to the authoritative nameservers relative to other providers. You will need to set the -DnsSleep parameter to at least 10 minutes, but potentially to 15-20 minutes to ensure the records are live before trying to validate the ACME challenges with Posh-ACME.

$pArgs = @{
    NetcupCustNumber = 123456
    NetcupAPICredential = (Get-Credential)
}
New-PACertificate example.com -Plugin Netcup -PluginArgs $pArgs -DnsSleep 900