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Host interface object

The following objects are directly related to the hostinterface API.

Host interface

The host interface object has the following properties.

Note that both ip and dns properties are required for create operations. If you do not want to use DNS, set it to an empty string.

Property Type Description
interfaceid ID ID of the interface.

Property behavior:
- read-only
- required for update operations
available integer Availability of host interface.

Possible values:
0 - (default) unknown;
1 - available;
2 - unavailable.

Property behavior:
- read-only
hostid ID ID of the host that the interface belongs to.

Property behavior:
- constant
- required for create operations
type integer Interface type.

Possible values:
1 - Agent;
2 - SNMP;
3 - IPMI;
4 - JMX.

Property behavior:
- required for create operations
ip string IP address used by the interface.

Can be empty if the connection is made via DNS.

Property behavior:
- required for create operations
dns string DNS name used by the interface.

Can be empty if the connection is made via IP.

Property behavior:
- required for create operations
port string Port number used by the interface.
Can contain user macros.

Property behavior:
- required for create operations
useip integer Whether the connection should be made via IP.

Possible values:
0 - connect using host DNS name;
1 - connect using host IP address.

Property behavior:
- required for create operations
main integer Whether the interface is used as default on the host. Only one interface of some type can be set as default on a host.

Possible values:
0 - not default;
1 - default.

Property behavior:
- required for create operations
details array Additional details object for interface.

Property behavior:
- required if type is set to "SNMP"
disable_until timestamp The next polling time of an unavailable host interface.

Property behavior:
- read-only
error string Error text if host interface is unavailable.

Property behavior:
- read-only
errors_from timestamp Time when host interface became unavailable.

Property behavior:
- read-only

Details

The details object has the following properties.

Property Type Description
version integer SNMP interface version.

Possible values:
1 - SNMPv1;
2 - SNMPv2c;
3 - SNMPv3.

Property behavior:
- required
bulk integer Whether to use bulk SNMP requests.

Possible values:
0 - don't use bulk requests;
1 - (default) - use bulk requests.
community string SNMP community. Used only by SNMPv1 and SNMPv2 interfaces.

Property behavior:
- required if version is set to "SNMPv1" or "SNMPv2c"
max_repetitions integer Max repetition value for native SNMP bulk requests (GetBulkRequest-PDUs).
Used only for discovery[] and walk[] items in SNMPv2 and v3.

Default: 10.
securityname string SNMPv3 security name. Used only by SNMPv3 interfaces.
securitylevel integer SNMPv3 security level. Used only by SNMPv3 interfaces.

Possible values:
0 - (default) - noAuthNoPriv;
1 - authNoPriv;
2 - authPriv.
authpassphrase string SNMPv3 authentication passphrase. Used only by SNMPv3 interfaces.
privpassphrase string SNMPv3 privacy passphrase. Used only by SNMPv3 interfaces.
authprotocol integer SNMPv3 authentication protocol. Used only by SNMPv3 interfaces.

Possible values:
0 - (default) - MD5;
1 - SHA1;
2 - SHA224;
3 - SHA256;
4 - SHA384;
5 - SHA512.
privprotocol integer SNMPv3 privacy protocol. Used only by SNMPv3 interfaces.

Possible values:
0 - (default) - DES;
1 - AES128;
2 - AES192;
3 - AES256;
4 - AES192C;
5 - AES256C.
contextname string SNMPv3 context name. Used only by SNMPv3 interfaces.