Get host name through the API

[Stephen Wood]

I'm able to get the hostid from the API, but I'm so far unable to figure out a way to get the hostname as it would appear in zabbix. Is this possible through the API?

I need this information because it's being used to sort hosts that have been taken offline.

[Stephen Wood]

For anyone wondering, I don't think this is possible through the API. In order to get this information, I added a zabbix mysql user with specific read-only privileges on the zabbix DB, then I run this command:

mysql -u zabbix DATABASE -e 'select name from hosts where status != 3;'

Which gives me all of the names of hosts (minus the template names).

I hate to go through mysql but I guess this is my only option at the moment.

[Pavels]

Of course it is possible. Just use output: ["name"] to get the visible name of the host or "output": ["host"] to get the technical name.