Python library for Zabbix API

[PieterB]

Why need yet another python module?
Stable? zabbix_api very stable. All problems that i catched was linked with zabbix side.
Documentation? Main documentations - zabbix wiki. I think don't need copy and paste it to module.
Don't do meaningless forks. Would be better if you help with me "well-documented" and examples.

One reason could be Python 3?

[PieterB]

I use the following code snippet to get a long(er) text value...

for item in zapi.item.get({'filter': { 'hostid' : k, 'key_':'test1[]'} , 'output' :'extend'}):
                print "%s %s %s %s %s" % (item['hostid'], item['itemid'],item['description'], item['lastvalue'], item['templateid'])
                dicto[k] = item['lastvalue']
         print dicto

The problem: not all the data is fetched (+- 512) (everything shows in zabbix frontend)

How can I solve this?

[gescheit]

One reason could be Python 3?

Check my last commit. I add python3 compliant

[gescheit]

I use the following code snippet to get a long(er) text value...

for item in zapi.item.get({'filter': { 'hostid' : k, 'key_':'test1[]'} , 'output' :'extend'}):
                print "%s %s %s %s %s" % (item['hostid'], item['itemid'],item['description'], item['lastvalue'], item['templateid'])
                dicto[k] = item['lastvalue']
         print dicto

The problem: not all the data is fetched (+- 512) (everything shows in zabbix frontend)

How can I solve this?

version of zabbix API? I check this:
f =zapi.item.get({'filter': {},'output' :'extend'})
print len(f)
and always get true count of items.

[PieterB]

Zabbix API 1.3
Your latest version of Python API wrapper, Zabbix 1.8.8


Some output from len()

16
69
57
86
86
91
91
91
9
9
9
9
9
4
255
255
16
16
16
57
74
57
219
91
74

Seems to be only the first 255 char are returned by lastvalue.....

[gescheit]

Zabbix API 1.3
Seems to be only the first 255 char are returned by lastvalue.....

Lastvalue really store only 256 chars. Use history.get

[PieterB]

Lastvalue really store only 256 chars. Use history.get

Stupid me. Thx a lot!

[Yello]

Hi,
How do I reduce the verbosity of the api output?


Regards,
David

[gescheit]

Hi,
How do I reduce the verbosity of the api output?


Regards,
David

zapi = zabbix_api.ZabbixAPI(server = "http://localhost", log_level = 40)

[Yello]

Item bulk creation

Hi,
I think there may be a problem with the item.create method of the api. My code looks like this:

items = []
items = builditems(conf,scen,step,hostid)
zapi.item.create(items)

The builditems function generates a set of items and returns a list (items). When I pass this list to zapi I get this error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./webgen.py", line 178, in <module>
zapi.item.create(items)
File "/home/user/api/zabbix_api.py", line 365, in method
return self.universal("item.%s" % name, opts[0])
File "/home/user/api/zabbix_api.py", line 79, in wrapper
return self.do_request(self.json_obj(method, opts))['result']
File "/home/user/api/zabbix_api.py", line 337, in do_request
return self.parent.do_request(req)
File "/home/user/api/zabbix_api.py", line 301, in do_request
raise ZabbixAPIException(msg, jobj['error']['code'])
TypeError: __init__() takes exactly 2 arguments (3 given)

However, if I force builditems to return only 1 set of item parameters then item creation works. Is there something else I need to do in order to bulk load items?


Regards,
David

[gescheit]

Please, show the "item" variable.

[Yello]

Hi,
False alarm. I've resolved the issue. I had a problem with the key format of one of the items I was building which was making the api see it as a duplicate.


Regards,
David

[bcarpio]

Error In Latest zabbix_api.py

[/var/tmp/api]# python test.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "test.py", line 1, in ?
from zabbix_api import ZabbixAPI
File "/tmp/api/zabbix_api.py", line 283
except ValueError as msg:
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

[bcarpio]

Old python version

Since I am running RHEL/CentOS 5.6 I needed to install python26 from EPEL.

[mcmyst]

Hi,

Thank you for your job on this library !

I am discovering the functionnality of the zabbix API, I would like to be able to see all the details about an item, but I can't see how ?

I know how to list all items id about a particular host:

list_item = zapi.item.get({"filter":{"hostids":hostid}})
for item in list_item:
	if item['itemid'] == '26062':
		print item

Now that I have the item id, what is the way to describe it ?

Thank you.