Creating/deleting/linking to template without UI

[Hichhiker]

I need to automatically add, remove and modify hosts and their linked templates in Zabbix 1.6.5.

As I understand, there is no API at the moment to do so, so I need to either cannibalize the existing PHP frontend UI to do this, or just write directly to DB. Can't say I am thrilled with either solution - so am I missing anything here, and are there any pitfalls to watch out for? Anyone done this already?

-HH

[nelsonab]

Unfortunately you'll need to massage the DB directly. It's not quite for the faint of heart though.

[Hichhiker]

Thanks. That is unfortunate.

After glancing at the frontend code, it seems that the only thing stopping us from being able to just hit the frontend using something like curl is authentication. I switched the auth on frontend to HTTP (Basic auth), but it seems that auth code forces a redirect to index.php on login regardless. I would imagine it should be simple to fix that by including the login code on every page, but I will need to check to see if that is feasible (at first glance login logic seemed a bit confusing).

[nelsonab]

There is hope at hand!!!

http://www.zabbix.com/forum/showpost.php?p=46908&postcount=4

This was a small script I posted for someone who wanted to pull a graph which required authentication. You can use this as a basis for creating a set of wget and curl statements to get the job done. :-)