Zabbix Documentation 4.0

object hostgroup.delete(array hostGroupIds)

This method allows to delete host groups.

A host group can not be deleted if:

• it contains hosts that belong to this group only;
• it is marked as internal;
• it is used by a host prototype;
• it is used in a global script;
• it is used in a correlation condition.

(array) IDs of the host groups to delete.

(object) Returns an object containing the IDs of the deleted host groups under the groupids property.

Delete two host groups.

Request:

{
    "jsonrpc": "2.0",
    "method": "hostgroup.delete",
    "params": [
        "107824",
        "107825"
    ],
    "auth": "3a57200802b24cda67c4e4010b50c065",
    "id": 1
}

Response:

{
    "jsonrpc": "2.0",
    "result": {
        "groupids": [
            "107824",
            "107825"
        ]
    },
    "id": 1
}

CHostGroup::delete() in frontends/php/include/classes/api/services/CHostGroup.php.