Python library for Zabbix API

[Brazarabit]

hi there

very interesting thank

[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.

I have reached to do it with:

list_item = zapi.item.get({"output": "extend","filter":{"hostids":hostid}})

[Yello]

Hi,
When do you plan to add 'item.exists' to the api library?


Regards,
David

[gescheit]

Module (https://github.com/gescheit/scripts/tree/master/zabbix) translate all methods to zabbix server. So dont need any action in this module, then zabbix add new methods in API.

[frankymryao]

Hi my friend, I am working on the python library of zabbix as well. My library more focus on Class and abstract and relation between Class because of I need to communicate with our CMDB. Your core thought of decorator is merge into my library. A lot thanks to you! My library:http://baniu.me/2012/04/zabbix-api-v0-1/

[mcmyst]

Hello,

I am working on a program to synchronise our equipment/connection database with zabbix. I am using your library to do this in python.
I am facing a problem about encoding:

zabbix_api.ZabbixAPIException:(u'Error -32602:Invalid params.,
[ CHost::create ] Incorrect characters used for Hostname 
[ SWT_Ranc\xc3\x83\xc2\xa9_01 ] while sending {"params": 
[{"ip": IP_ADDR, "host": "SWT_Ranc\\u00c3\\u0083\\u00c2\\u00a9_01", 
"useip": 1, "port": 10050, "groups": [{"groupid": "130"}]}], "jsonrpc": "2.0", 
"method": "host.create", "auth": "52fadd077508d4170738ea71f9dd046e", "id": 2}', 
-32602)

Here is my code

host_name = host_tab_infos[1].decode('latin1')
host_name = host_name.replace(":","").replace(";","").replace(",","")
host_name = host_name.encode('utf-8')
zapi.host.create({"host": host_name,"ip": host_ip,"port": 10050,"useip": 1,"groups": [{"groupid": 6}]})

My database is encoded in latin1 and I am trying to encode it in utf-8 (the name should be SWT_Rancé_01).

Do you have an idea ?

Thank you

[frankymryao]

a little updated

create object(host, item and etc) dynamically:

def __getattr__(self, name):
if name not in self._zabbix_api_object_list:
raise ZabbixAPIException('No such API object: %s' % name)
if not self.__dict__.has_key(name):
self.__dict__[name] = ZabbixAPIObjectFactory(self, name)
return self.__dict__[name]

[Yello]

Hello,

Here is my code

host_name = host_tab_infos[1].decode('latin1')
host_name = host_name.replace(":","").replace(";","").replace(",","")
host_name = host_name.encode('utf-8')
zapi.host.create({"host": host_name,"ip": host_ip,"port": 10050,"useip": 1,"groups": [{"groupid": 6}]})

Have you tried something like this:

host_name = unicode(host_tab_infos[1],"utf-8")

Regards,
David

[mcmyst]

Have you tried something like this:

host_name = unicode(host_tab_infos[1],"utf-8")

Regards,
David

Yes I have already tried it.
In fact I think zabbix refuse a hostname with accent, it is not a problem of encoding...


Thank you

[mcmyst]

For people willing to manage IT service with this library, you need to modify the zabbix_api.py file as follow:

diff zabbix_api_final.py zabbix_api_original.py
128,129d127
<     service = None
<
157d154
<         self.service = ZabbixAPISubClass(self, dict({"prefix": "service"}, **kwargs))

And then, this should work:

print zapi.service.get({"output": "extend","serviceids":"1"})
[{u'status': u'0', u'showsla': u'1', u'name': u'SLA XXXXX', u'algorithm': u'1', u'triggerid': u'0', u'serviceid': u'1', u'sortorder': u'0', u'goodsla': u'99.9000'}]

[linuxgurugamer]

Problem creating new item

I have a script which used to work with Zabbix 1.8, but sometime since i upgraded to 2.0, one part of it isn't.

The scrpt works when updating items, but not when creating a new one.

Here is the code in question:
newitem = {
'hostid' : str(hostid),
'description' : (s[1]),
'key_' : key,
'applications': (allapps)
}
zapi.item.create(newitem)

and here is the error:


Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./zabbix_updatefs.py", line 171, in <module>
zapi.item.create(newitem)
File "/etc/zabbix/python/zabbix_api.py", line 311, in wrapper
return self.do_request(self.json_obj(name,opts))['result']
File "/etc/zabbix/python/zabbix_api.py", line 293, in do_request
return self.parent.do_request(req)
File "/etc/zabbix/python/zabbix_api.py", line 258, in do_request
raise ZabbixAPIException(msg,jobj['error']['code'])
zabbix_api.ZabbixAPIException: (u'Error -32602: Invalid params., Incorrect arguments passed to function. while sending {"params": {"applications": ["1963", "1965"], "hostid": "10262", "key_": "vfs.fs.inode[/boot,free]", "description": "Free number of inodes on $1"}, "jsonrpc": "2.0", "method": "item.create", "auth": "1fcc445765110c17eb35918153cbe18a", "id": 5}', -32602)


Any ideas?

Thanks in advance

JBB

[Yello]

Hi,
The api has changed in version 2.0 and isn't compatible with api 1.8. I suspect that's what's caused the failure.


Regards,
David

[linuxgurugamer]

and that's exactly what it was.

I've updated my script and it's now working.

Thanks


JBB

[mvasilenko]

and that's exactly what it was.

I've updated my script and it's now working.

Thanks


JBB

hello
can someone share the python code which works with Zabbix 2.0 API ?
I need to write the script which does batch add of hosts

[mvasilenko]

script for zabbix python api import from nocproject

I wrote little script for importing hosts from
nocproject to zabbix
- create group for imported hosts in zabbix - say TestGroup
- create template for hosts - say TestTemplate
- select desired hosts in nocproject, export them to CSV
- run this script, modified to your custom needs

#!/usr/bin/python
# import hosts from nocproject csv-exported file to zabbix via API
# and assign template 'TestTemplate' and group 'TestGroup' to them
import csv
from zabbix_api import ZabbixAPI

server="http://127.0.0.1/zabbix"
username="Admin"
password="XXXXX"

zapi = ZabbixAPI(server=server, path="", log_level=6)
zapi.login(username, password)

# Get hosts in the hostgroup
group_id = zapi.hostgroup.get({"filter" : {"name" : 'TestGroup'}})[0]['groupid']

template_id = zapi.template.get({"filter" : {"name" : 'TestTemplate'}})[0]['templateid']

file = open("mo-list.txt",'rb')
reader = csv.DictReader( file )

for line in reader:
    print line['name'],line['address']
    t = zapi.host.create (
    {
        "host": line['name'],
        "interfaces":[{
            "type":1,
                "dns":"",
                "main":1,
                "ip": line['address'],
                "port": 10050,
                "useip": 1,
        }],
        "groups": [{ "groupid": group_id }],
        "templates": [{ "templateid": template_id }],
    })

file.close()