Thanks.
I think there was a little more to it than that, or messed up even. I did a fresh install of SME Server and now it is adding the host using the above db hosts etc. etc. command string.
This was a VM that I've been testing some other features on, and even some unsupported, so I must have made it made somewhere along the way.
Now I have a new issue. The router only wants to talk PAP to the radius server, but the radius config does not seem to include the PAP module. Is it possible for me to add the PAP module to the radius config without it being overwritten later on down the road?