Dynamic hosts list

[ssp1re]

Is it possible in Zabbix to monitor a list of hosts from a file, that is dynamically changed?

What I'd like to do is run a cron on the Zabbix server that queries a database for a list of servers to monitor, and output it to a file. I want to configure Zabbix to monitor every server listed in that file with the same template and in the same host group.

Will this require heavy scripting and/or use of the API?

[walterheck]

Yes, this could be done with the API. You could have a cronned script loop through that file, then call a PHP/ruby script that uses the API to create new hosts/update old ones.

Couldn't you work with auto-discovery somehow? That's already built-in..

[ssp1re]

Thanks for the suggestion. No, we cannot use auto-discovery in this case-- new servers added are managed hosts in different datacenters.