Zabbix API access from Command Line.

[wesmason]

I've looked around a little and haven't seen much on this front. I have a Zabbix server, and in the process of migration, I have a bulk of copy/paste from old system (would you believe Nagios?) to new system. I don't relish this task so I decided to see what I could manage via API.

I have some experience pulling out info from the API to get me hostnames for machines I have added to a template. I have expanded this into a bash/curl/jq script to allow me to make all the calls I need to gather information from the API, but via the command line so my other scripts can act on that.

Example to query the hostname and get the hostid:

$ ./api -m host.get -f '"host": "myhost.com"' -r .hostid
11

This is not limited to getting items. Example to query and delete a macro from a host:

$ ./api -m usermacro.get -p '"hostids": "11"'
{
  "value": "test",
  "macro": "{$TEST}",
  "hostid": "11",
  "hostmacroid": "5"
}
$ ./api -m usermacro.delete -a -p '"5"'
[
  "5"
]

Any interest for me to share it?

[kloczek]

I've looked around a little and haven't seen much on this front.

Try to hae look on https://github.com/kloczek/zapish