How to update items through API (without Zabbix Agent)?

[kbencze95]

Hello, and thank you for taking the time to read my issue.

I have a task, which is to create items for some hosts, and update those items' value via API POST calls ( or any other way), WITHOUT installing Zabbix agent on the hosts.

So I am developing an application which sends API requests to my Zabbix server, but in the documentation I noticed that, the "item.update" method (https://www.zabbix.com/documentation...ce/item/update) gives no way to update the value of the item. The parameter "lastvalue" is readonly, so the calls I make do not change its value.

Is there a way around this? Is there another way to make items for hosts, which could be changed via API POST calls? Or any other way to change these values without Zabbix Agent?

Thanks in advance,
Bless your heart for reading all this,
Bence K.

[cyber]

API is not for submitting data. It is for configurations... If agent is out of the question, then maybe zabbix_sender? it is a tiny binary and could be also just a standalone, without any installations procedures...

[kbencze95]

Thank you, that sounds like something I can work with. Do you happen to know where I can download this tiny binary? For Windows

[cyber]

API is not for submitting data. It is for configurations... If agent is out of the question, then maybe zabbix_sender? it is a tiny binary and could be also just a standalone, without any installations procedures...

[kbencze95]

Thank you, that sounds like something I can work with. Do you happen to know where I can download this tiny binary? For Windows

[cyber]

For windows, it is part of agent installation, so unpack it

https://cdn.zabbix.com/zabbix/binaries/stable/6.0/6.0.4/zabbix_agent-6.0.4-windows-amd64-openssl.zip

Or any other version, https://www.zabbix.com/download_agents

[Markku]

So I am developing an application which sends API requests to my Zabbix server

Note that you can also leverage any existing library for Zabbix sender/trapper (like zbxsend or py-zabbix for Python), or write your own calls if you like, based on the documentation:

https://www.zabbix.com/documentation.../items/trapper

Markku