api question, how to associate hostgroups with hosts?

[maxlock]

Hi All,

I want to write a script to copy all the hosts from one hostgroup to another via the api using hostgroup.massupdate.

The problem I have is getting a list of hosts that are in the source hostgroup. There's no way to select/filter host.get to show hosts with a matching groupid and hostgroup.get doesn't show hostgroup members?

Is this something for the wishlist?

-Cheers Max

[zabbix_zen]

Yes there is.

Using the Python API, (the logic is the same using other zabcon or other wrappers)

group_id = zapi.hostgroup.get({"filter" : {"name" : 'YourHostGroupName'}})[0]['groupid']
zapi.host.get({"filter" : {"groupid" : group_id}})

gets you the hostgroupid and
the list of hosts from that groupid

[maxlock]

Hi There,

Thanks for the suggestions, the API docs specify groupids not groupid, that could be why it's not working. I'll go play

-Cheers Max.

[maxlock]

Hi,

I just updated groupids to groupid, I've still got problems. I posted earlier in the forum about filtering not working and that seems to be the case again now. Regardless of what host group id I specify, all hosts are being returned including those not in the specified host group.

curl -b /tmp/cookies -m3 -i -X POST -H 'Content-Type: application/json-rpc' -d '{"jsonrpc": "2.0", "method":"host.get","params": {"output": "extend", "filter": {"groupid": ["12"]}},"auth": "dc2c3d4ed2d70ca159eef083762d63fc", "id": 0}' http://hostname/zabbix/api_jsonrpc.php

-Cheers Max.