host.get

Description

integer/array host.get(object parameters)

The method allows to retrieve hosts according to the given parameters.

This method is available to users of any type. Permissions to call the method can be revoked in user role settings. See User roles for more information.

Parameters

(object) Parameters defining the desired output.

The method supports the following parameters.

Parameter Type Description
groupids string/array Return only hosts that belong to the given groups.
dserviceids string/array Return only hosts that are related to the given discovered services.
graphids string/array Return only hosts that have the given graphs.
hostids string/array Return only hosts with the given host IDs.
httptestids string/array Return only hosts that have the given web checks.
interfaceids string/array Return only hosts that use the given interfaces.
itemids string/array Return only hosts that have the given items.
maintenanceids string/array Return only hosts that are affected by the given maintenances.
monitored_hosts flag Return only monitored hosts.
proxy_hosts flag Return only proxies.
proxyids string/array Return only hosts that are monitored by the given proxies.
templated_hosts flag Return both hosts and templates.
templateids string/array Return only hosts that are linked to the given templates.
triggerids string/array Return only hosts that have the given triggers.
with_items flag Return only hosts that have items.

Overrides the with_monitored_items and with_simple_graph_items parameters.
with_item_prototypes flag Return only hosts that have item prototypes.

Overrides the with_simple_graph_item_prototypes parameter.
with_simple_graph_item_prototypes flag Return only hosts that have item prototypes, which are enabled for creation and have numeric type of information.
with_graphs flag Return only hosts that have graphs.
with_graph_prototypes flag Return only hosts that have graph prototypes.
with_httptests flag Return only hosts that have web checks.

Overrides the with_monitored_httptests parameter.
with_monitored_httptests flag Return only hosts that have enabled web checks.
with_monitored_items flag Return only hosts that have enabled items.

Overrides the with_simple_graph_items parameter.
with_monitored_triggers flag Return only hosts that have enabled triggers. All of the items used in the trigger must also be enabled.
with_simple_graph_items flag Return only hosts that have items with numeric type of information.
with_triggers flag Return only hosts that have triggers.

Overrides the with_monitored_triggers parameter.
withProblemsSuppressed boolean Return hosts that have suppressed problems.

Possible values:
null - (default) all hosts;
true - only hosts with suppressed problems;
false - only hosts with unsuppressed problems.
evaltype integer Rules for tag searching.

Possible values:
0 - (default) And/Or;
2 - Or.
severities integer/array Return hosts that have only problems with given severities. Applies only if problem object is trigger.
tags object/array Return only hosts with given tags. Exact match by tag and case-sensitive or case-insensitive search by tag value depending on operator value.
Format: [{"tag": "<tag>", "value": "<value>", "operator": "<operator>"}, ...].
An empty array returns all hosts.

Possible operator values:
0 - (default) Contains;
1 - Equals;
2 - Not like;
3 - Not equal;
4 - Exists;
5 - Not exists.
inheritedTags boolean Return hosts that have given tags also in all of their linked templates. Default:

Possible values:
true - linked templates must also have given tags;
false - (default) linked template tags are ignored.
selectDiscoveries query Return a discoveries property with host low-level discovery rules.

Supports count.
selectDiscoveryRule query Return a discoveryRule property with the low-level discovery rule that created the host (from host prototype in VMware monitoring).
selectGraphs query Return a graphs property with host graphs.

Supports count.
selectHostDiscovery query Return a hostDiscovery property with host discovery object data.

The host discovery object links a discovered host to a host prototype or a host prototypes to an LLD rule and has the following properties:
host - (string) host of the host prototype;
hostid - (string) ID of the discovered host or host prototype;
parent_hostid - (string) ID of the host prototype from which the host has been created;
parent_itemid - (string) ID of the LLD rule that created the discovered host;
lastcheck - (timestamp) time when the host was last discovered;
ts_delete - (timestamp) time when a host that is no longer discovered will be deleted.
selectHostGroups query Return a hostgroups property with host groups data that the host belongs to.
selectHttpTests query Return an httpTests property with host web scenarios.

Supports count.
selectInterfaces query Return an interfaces property with host interfaces.

Supports count.
selectInventory query Return an inventory property with host inventory data.
selectItems query Return an items property with host items.

Supports count.
selectMacros query Return a macros property with host macros.
selectParentTemplates query Return a parentTemplates property with templates that the host is linked to.

In addition to Template object fields, it contains link_type - (integer) the way that the template is linked to host.
Possible values:
0 - (default) manually linked;
1 - automatically linked by LLD.

Supports count.
selectDashboards query Return a dashboards property.

Supports count.
selectTags query Return a tags property with host tags.
selectInheritedTags query Return an inheritedTags property with tags that are on all templates which are linked to host.
selectTriggers query Return a triggers property with host triggers.

Supports count.
selectValueMaps query Return a valuemaps property with host value maps.
filter object Return only those results that exactly match the given filter.

Accepts an array, where the keys are property names, and the values are either a single value or an array of values to match against.

Allows filtering by interface properties. Doesn't work for text fields.
limitSelects integer Limits the number of records returned by subselects.

Applies to the following subselects:
selectParentTemplates - results will be sorted by host;
selectInterfaces;
selectItems - sorted by name;
selectDiscoveries - sorted by name;
selectTriggers - sorted by description;
selectGraphs - sorted by name;
selectDashboards - sorted by name.
search object Return results that match the given pattern (case-insensitive).

Accepts an array, where the keys are property names, and the values are strings to search for. If no additional options are given, this will perform a LIKE "%…%" search.

Allows searching by interface properties. Works only for string and text fields.
searchInventory object Return only hosts that have inventory data matching the given wildcard search.

This parameter is affected by the same additional parameters as search.
sortfield string/array Sort the result by the given properties.

Possible values: hostid, host, name, status.
countOutput boolean These parameters being common for all get methods are described in detail in the reference commentary.
editable boolean
excludeSearch boolean
limit integer
output query
preservekeys boolean
searchByAny boolean
searchWildcardsEnabled boolean
sortorder string/array
startSearch boolean
selectGroups
(deprecated)
query This parameter is deprecated, please use selectHostGroups instead.
Return a groups property with host groups data that the host belongs to.

Return values

(integer/array) Returns either:

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

Examples

Retrieving data by name

Retrieve all data about two hosts named "Zabbix server" and "Linux server".

Request:

{
           "jsonrpc": "2.0",
           "method": "host.get",
           "params": {
               "filter": {
                   "host": [
                       "Zabbix server",
                       "Linux server"
                   ]
               }
           },
           "id": 1
       }

Response:

{
           "jsonrpc": "2.0",
           "result": [
               {
                   "hostid": "10160",
                   "proxy_hostid": "0",
                   "host": "Zabbix server",
                   "status": "0",
                   "lastaccess": "0",
                   "ipmi_authtype": "-1",
                   "ipmi_privilege": "2",
                   "ipmi_username": "",
                   "ipmi_password": "",
                   "maintenanceid": "0",
                   "maintenance_status": "0",
                   "maintenance_type": "0",
                   "maintenance_from": "0",
                   "name": "Zabbix server",
                   "flags": "0",
                   "description": "The Zabbix monitoring server.",
                   "tls_connect": "1",
                   "tls_accept": "1",
                   "tls_issuer": "",
                   "tls_subject": "",
                   "inventory_mode": "1",
                   "active_available": "1"
               },
               {
                   "hostid": "10167",
                   "proxy_hostid": "0",
                   "host": "Linux server",
                   "status": "0",
                   "ipmi_authtype": "-1",
                   "ipmi_privilege": "2",
                   "ipmi_username": "",
                   "ipmi_password": "",
                   "maintenanceid": "0",
                   "maintenance_status": "0",
                   "maintenance_type": "0",
                   "maintenance_from": "0",
                   "name": "Linux server",
                   "flags": "0",
                   "description": "",
                   "tls_connect": "1",
                   "tls_accept": "1",
                   "tls_issuer": "",
                   "tls_subject": "",
                   "inventory_mode": "1",
                   "active_available": "1"
               }
           ],
           "id": 1
       }

Retrieving host groups

Retrieve host groups that the host "Zabbix server" is a member of.

Request:

{
           "jsonrpc": "2.0",
           "method": "host.get",
           "params": {
               "output": ["hostid"],
               "selectHostGroups": "extend",
               "filter": {
                   "host": [
                       "Zabbix server"
                   ]
               }
           },
           "id": 1
       }

Response:

{
           "jsonrpc": "2.0",
           "result": [
               {
                   "hostid": "10085",
                   "hostgroups": [
                       {
                           "groupid": "2",
                           "name": "Linux servers",
                           "flags": "0",
                           "uuid": "dc579cd7a1a34222933f24f52a68bcd8"
                       },
                       {
                           "groupid": "4",
                           "name": "Zabbix servers",
                           "flags": "0",
                           "uuid": "6f6799aa69e844b4b3918f779f2abf08"
                       }
                   ]
               }
           ],
           "id": 1
       }

Retrieving linked templates

Retrieve the IDs and names of templates linked to host "10084".

Request:

{
           "jsonrpc": "2.0",
           "method": "host.get",
           "params": {
               "output": ["hostid"],
               "selectParentTemplates": [
                   "templateid",
                   "name"
               ],
               "hostids": "10084"
           },
           "id": 1
       }

Response:

{
           "jsonrpc": "2.0",
           "result": [
               {
                   "hostid": "10084",
                   "parentTemplates": [
                       {
                           "name": "Linux",
                           "templateid": "10001"
                       },
                       {
                           "name": "Zabbix Server",
                           "templateid": "10047"
                       }
                   ]
               }
           ],
           "id": 1
       }

Retrieving hosts by template

Retrieve hosts that have the "10001" (Linux by Zabbix agent) template linked to them.

Request:

{
           "jsonrpc": "2.0",
           "method": "host.get",
           "params": {
               "output": ["hostid", "name"],
               "templateids": "10001"
           },
           "id": 1
       }

Response:

{
           "jsonrpc": "2.0",
           "result": [
               {
                   "templateid": "10001",
                   "hosts": [
                       {
                           "hostid": "10084",
                           "name": "Zabbix server"
                       },
                       {
                           "hostid": "10603",
                           "name": "Host 1"
                       },
                       {
                           "hostid": "10604",
                           "name": "Host 2"
                       }
                   ]
               }
           ],
           "id": 1
       }

Searching by host inventory data

Retrieve hosts that contain "Linux" in the host inventory "OS" field.

Request:

{
           "jsonrpc": "2.0",
           "method": "host.get",
           "params": {
               "output": [
                   "host"
               ],
               "selectInventory": [
                   "os"
               ],
               "searchInventory": {
                   "os": "Linux"
               }
           },
           "id": 1
       }

Response:

{
           "jsonrpc": "2.0",
           "result": [
               {
                   "hostid": "10084",
                   "host": "Zabbix server",
                   "inventory": {
                       "os": "Linux Ubuntu"
                   }
               },
               {
                   "hostid": "10107",
                   "host": "Linux server",
                   "inventory": {
                       "os": "Linux Mint"
                   }
               }
           ],
           "id": 1
       }

Searching by host tags

Retrieve hosts that have tag "Host name" equal to "Linux server".

Request:

{
           "jsonrpc": "2.0",
           "method": "host.get",
           "params": {
               "output": ["hostid"],
               "selectTags": "extend",
               "evaltype": 0,
               "tags": [
                   {
                       "tag": "Host name",
                       "value": "Linux server",
                       "operator": 1
                   }
               ]
           },
           "id": 1
       }

Response:

{
           "jsonrpc": "2.0",
           "result": [
               {
                   "hostid": "10085",
                   "tags": [
                       {
                           "tag": "Host name",
                           "value": "Linux server"
                       },
                       {
                           "tag": "OS",
                           "value": "RHEL 7"
                       }
                   ]
               }
           ],
           "id": 1
       }

Retrieve hosts that have these tags not only on host level but also in their linked parent templates.

Request:

{
           "jsonrpc": "2.0",
           "method": "host.get",
           "params": {
               "output": ["name"],
               "tags": [
                   {
                       "tag": "A",
                       "value": "1",
                       "operator": 1
                   }
               ],
               "inheritedTags": true
           },
           "id": 1
       }

Response:

{
           "jsonrpc": "2.0",
           "result": [
               {
                   "hostid": "10623",
                   "name": "PC room 1"
               },
               {
                   "hostid": "10601",
                   "name": "Office"
               }
           ],
           "id": 1
       }

Searching host with tags and template tags

Retrieve a host with tags and all tags that are linked to parent templates.

Request:

{
           "jsonrpc": "2.0",
           "method": "host.get",
           "params": {
               "output": ["name"],
               "hostids": 10502,
               "selectTags": ["tag", "value"],
               "selectInheritedTags": ["tag", "value"]
           },
           "id": 1
       }

Response:

{
           "jsonrpc": "2.0",
           "result": [
               {
                   "hostid": "10502",
                   "name": "Desktop",
                   "tags": [
                       {
                           "tag": "A",
                           "value": "1"
                       }
                   ],
                   "inheritedTags": [
                       {
                           "tag": "B",
                           "value": "2"
                       }
                   ]
               }
           ],
           "id": 1
       }

Searching hosts by problem severity

Retrieve hosts that have "Disaster" problems.

Request:

{
           "jsonrpc": "2.0",
           "method": "host.get",
           "params": {
               "output": ["name"],
               "severities": 5
           },
           "id": 1
       }

Response:

{
           "jsonrpc": "2.0",
           "result": [
               {
                   "hostid": "10160",
                   "name": "Zabbix server"
               }
           ],
           "id": 1
       }

Retrieve hosts that have "Average" and "High" problems.

Request:

{
           "jsonrpc": "2.0",
           "method": "host.get",
           "params": {
               "output": ["name"],
               "severities": [3, 4]
           },
           "id": 1
       }

Response:

{
           "jsonrpc": "2.0",
           "result": [
               {
                   "hostid": "20170",
                   "name": "Database"
               },
               {
                   "hostid": "20183",
                   "name": "workstation"
               }
           ],
           "id": 1
       }

See also

Source

CHost::get() in ui/include/classes/api/services/CHost.php.