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> User object

The following objects are directly related to the user API.

User

The user object has the following properties.

Property Type Description
userid string ID of the user.

Property behavior:
- read-only
- required for update operations
username string User's name.

Property behavior:
- required for create operations
- read-only for provisioned users if the user is linked to a user directory (userdirectoryid is set to a valid value that is not "0"), and user directory provisioning status is enabled (provision_status of User directory object is set to "1"), and authentication status of all LDAP or SAML provisioning is enabled (ldap_jit_status of Authentication object is set to "Enabled for configured LDAP IdPs" or saml_jit_status of Authentication object is set to "Enabled for configured SAML IdPs")
passwd string User's password.

The value of this parameter can be an empty string if the user is linked to a user directory.

Property behavior:
- write-only
roleid string Role ID of the user.

Note that users without a role can log into Zabbix only using LDAP or SAML authentication, provided their LDAP/SAML information matches the user group mappings configured in Zabbix.
attempt_clock timestamp Time of the last unsuccessful login attempt.

Property behavior:
- read-only
attempt_failed integer Recent failed login attempt count.

Property behavior:
- read-only
attempt_ip string IP address from where the last unsuccessful login attempt came from.

Property behavior:
- read-only
autologin integer Whether to enable auto-login.

Possible values:
0 - (default) auto-login disabled;
1 - auto-login enabled.
autologout string User session life time. Accepts seconds and time unit with suffix. If set to 0s, the session will never expire.

Default: 15m.
lang string Language code of the user's language, for example, en_GB.

Default: default - system default.
name string Name of the user.
refresh string Automatic refresh period. Accepts seconds or time unit with suffix (e.g., 30s, 90s, 1m, 1h).

Default: 30s.
rows_per_page integer Amount of object rows to show per page.

Default: 50.
surname string Surname of the user.
theme string User's theme.

Possible values:
default - (default) system default;
blue-theme - Blue;
dark-theme - Dark.
ts_provisioned timestamp Time when the latest provisioning operation was made.

Property behavior:
- read-only
url string URL of the page to redirect the user to after logging in.
userdirectoryid string ID of the user directory that the user in linked to.

Used for provisioning (creating or updating), as well as to login a user that is linked to a user directory.

For login operations the value of this property will have priority over the userdirectoryid property of user groups that the user belongs to.

Default: 0.
timezone string User's time zone, for example, Europe/London, UTC.

Default: default - system default.

For the full list of supported time zones please refer to PHP documentation.

Media

The media object has the following properties.

Property Type Description
mediatypeid string ID of the media type used by the media.

Property behavior:
- required
sendto string/array Address, user name or other identifier of the recipient.

If type of Media type is set to "Email", values are represented as array. For other types of Media types, value is represented as a string.

Property behavior:
- required
active integer Whether the media is enabled.

Possible values:
0 - (default) enabled;
1 - disabled.
severity integer Trigger severities to send notifications about.

Severities are stored in binary form with each bit representing the corresponding severity. For example, "12" equals "1100" in binary and means that notifications will be sent from triggers with severities "warning" and "average".

Refer to the trigger object page for a list of supported trigger severities.

Default: 63.
period string Time when the notifications can be sent as a time period or user macros separated by a semicolon.

Default: 1-7,00:00-24:00.