API: Searching for a specific trigger

[hertell]

I already posted a bug-request (https://support.zabbix.com/browse/ZBX-3344), but i think i either phrased myself wrong, or then i don't understand the answer.

I try to explain what i want to do:

I have a named host that runs multiple instances of an application our customer are using. With this api-script i try to build, i would like to maintain all items and triggers that are associated to the customers.

The item-key is built based on some basic-customer parameter, eg

application.warning.foo.customer1
application.warning.bar.customer1
application.warning.baz.customer1

application.warning.foo.customer2
application.warning.bar.customer2
application.warning.baz.customer2
etc.

So, with the help of this formula, i find the item-id, and i can do changes to eg the item's settings or description.

I'll show a couple of steps i do to find my trail to each step

I start by finding the host-id this is the way:

  def hostid_from_hostname(search,zabbix)
      search_app={"filter"=>{"host"=>["#{search}"]}}
      host = zabbix.raw_api("host.get",search_app)
      return host[0]['hostid']
  end

Now when i have the host-id, i'll check if customer-specific app exits, if not, then it will be created

  def get_appid(search,hostid,zabbix)
    search_app={
      "filter"=>{"name"=>"#{search}"},
      "hostids"=> ["#{hostid}"],
    }
    apps=zabbix.raw_api("application.get",search_app)
      if (apps.count == 1)
        uid = apps[0]['applicationid']
      else
        temp= zabbix.application.create({'name'=>"#{search}",'hostid'=>"#{hostid}"})
        uid = temp['applicationids']
      end
    return uid
  end

After this, i check if the item-exists, if not, then it will be created.. As i explained above, i get my item-id based a pre-defined key...

At this point, i want to get my hands on the trigger that is accociated to this item. The problem is that i can't figure out how i will find the trigger-id that is linked to the item-id..

So any help in getting this mystery solved would be appreciated! :-)

[hertell]

anyone with some ideas?

[hertell]

Is this really something that can't be done with the api?

[hertell]

bumpping this message a bit up...

[hertell]

and here we go again..