disable host triggers via script temporarily for app build window

[tommyboy]

Hi I would like to disable 1 or more specific host/s triggers - pre an application build run and then enable the host/s triggers once the build finishes - preferably, as a script.

With the above option - I will not get spammed during the Application build window, but will be notified if the server crashes during the build.

Running Zabbix 1.8.1

Thanks in Advance

[danrog]

You could do this easily with the API (which is JSON based). If you do some searches on some of my older posts you should find a PHP API class that I use (or there are some other API abstraction libraries you could use that a general search should turn up if PHP is not your thing [I've seen python and ruby]). With the PHP class it you could do something like this:

<?php
require_once("ZabbixAPI.class.php");

// This enables debugging, this is rather verbose but can help debug problems
ZabbixAPI::debugEnabled(TRUE);

// This logs into Zabbix (account must have API rights), and returns false if it fails
ZabbixAPI::login('http://localhost/zabbix183/','zabbix','')
    or die('Unable to login: '.print_r(ZabbixAPI::getLastError(),true));

$triggers = ZabbixAPI::fetch_array('trigger','get',array('extendoutput'=>1,'pattern'=>'some trigger description','select_items'=>1,'select_hosts'=>1));
print_r($triggers,true);

foreach ($triggers as $disableme) {
  ZabbixAPI::query('trigger','update',array('triggerid'=>$disablme['triggerid'],'status'=>1)); #might be status =>0 can't remember off the top of my head
}