Zabbix Documentation 2.4

usermacro.get

Description

integer/array usermacro.get(object parameters)

The method allows to retrieve host and global macros according to the given parameters.

Parameters

(object) Parameters defining the desired output.

The method supports the following parameters.

Parameter	Type	Description
globalmacro	flag	Return global macros instead of host macros.
globalmacroids	string/array	Return only global macros with the given IDs.
groupids	string/array	Return only host macros that belong to hosts or templates from the given host groups.
hostids	string/array	Return only host macros that belong to the given hosts.
hostmacroids	string/array	Return only host macros with the given IDs.
templateids	string/array	Return only host macros that belong to the given templates.

selectGroups	query	Return host groups that the host macro belongs to in the `groups` property. Used only when retrieving host macros.
selectHosts	query	Return hosts that the host macro belongs to in the `hosts` property. Used only when retrieving host macros.
selectTemplates	query	Return templates that the host macro belongs to in the `templates` property. Used only when retrieving host macros.

sortfield	string/array	Sort the result by the given properties. Possible value: `macro`.
countOutput	flag	These parameters being common for all `get` methods are described in detail in the reference commentary page.
editable	boolean
excludeSearch	flag
filter	object
limit	integer
output	query
preservekeys	flag
search	object
searchByAny	boolean
searchWildcardsEnabled	boolean
sortorder	string/array
startSearch	flag

Return values

(integer/array) Returns either:

an array of objects;
the count of retrieved objects, if the countOutput parameter has been used.

Examples

Retrieving host macros for a host

Retrieve all host macros defined for host “10198”.

Request:

{
    "jsonrpc": "2.0",
    "method": "usermacro.get",
    "params": {
        "output": "extend",
        "hostids": "10198"
    },
    "auth": "038e1d7b1735c6a5436ee9eae095879e",
    "id": 1
}

Response:

{
    "jsonrpc": "2.0",
    "result": [
        {
            "hostmacroid": "9",
            "hostid": "10198",
            "macro": "{$INTERFACE}",
            "value": "eth0"
        },
        {
            "hostmacroid": "11",
            "hostid": "10198",
            "macro": "{$SNMP_COMMUNITY}",
            "value": "public"
        }
    ],
    "id": 1
}

Retrieving global macros

Retrieve all global macros.