Howto set host inventory mode using the api

[lynggaard]

Hi

I can't seem to figure out how to set the host inventory mode when creating hosts using the API.

I can specify host inventory fields, which seems to set the mode to manual, but if a use "inventory_mode" as one of the fields I get told that is not allowed.

SO how do I set host inventory mode to automatic ?

[Pavels]

Can you give an example of the request you make to update the inventory mode?

[lynggaard]

Example request

ZabbixAPIException(msg, jobj['error']['code'])
zabbix.zabbix_api.ZabbixAPIException: (u'Error -32602: Invalid params., Incorrect inventory field "inventory_mode". while sending

{"params": {
"templates": [ {"templateid": "10001"}],
"interfaces": [{"ip": "10.8.36.91", "useip": 1, "dns": "www.example.com", "main": 1, "type": 1, "port": 10050}],
"macros": [],
"host": "www.example.com",
"inventory": {
"inventory_mode": 1,
"notes": "my notes",
"tag": "dev",
"installer_name": "Kokki at 2012-11-02_13-15-12"
},
"groups": [{"internal": "0", "groupid": "13", "name": "Project: RCM"}]
}, "jsonrpc": "2.0", "method": "host.create", "auth": "66d2a264b0e230d997c5567fba69ea5f", "id": 5}', -32602)

I have also tried setting host_inventory on the host object itself but that was not any better

[Pavels]

There's a tricky thing with inventory_mode that hasn't been documented yet: although inventory_mode is a property of the host_inventory object, when calling host.update or host.create it needs to be passed with the host objects.

Also, you don't need to pass the whole host group, only the groupid property is required.

The following request will work:

{
    "templates": [
        {
            "templateid": "10001"
        }
    ],
    "interfaces": [
        {
            "ip": "10.8.36.91",
            "useip": 1,
            "dns": "www.example.com",
            "main": 1,
            "type": 1,
            "port": 10050
        }
    ],
    "macros": [],
    "host": "www.example.com",
    "inventory_mode": 1,
    "inventory": {
        "notes": "my notes",
        "tag": "dev",
        "installer_name": "Kokki at 2012-11-02_13-15-12"
    },
    "groups": [
        {
            "groupid": "13"
        }
    ]
}

[alyssenko]

I know this is an old thread but I'm running into the same issue as OP when working with the Zabbix API.

I'm able to add the host via the API but I can't get host_inventory set to 'automatic', instead it defaults to 'disabled' even though I set it to "1" (automatic) as shown below:

curl -i -X POST -H 'Content-Type:application/json' -d'{"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"host.create","params":{"host":"'$host'","interfaces":[{"type":1,"main":1,"useip":1,"ip":"'$hostip'","dns":"","port":"10050"}],"groups":[{"groupid":2}],"templates":[{"templateid":"'$templateid'"}],"inventory_mode":1},"auth":"'$authtoken'","id":0}' $api

Any help or insight would be much appreciated- thanks.

[alyssenko]

I know this is an old thread but I'm running into the same issue as OP when working with the Zabbix API.

I'm able to add the host via the API but I can't get host_inventory set to 'automatic', instead it defaults to 'disabled' even though I set it to "1" (automatic) as shown below:

curl -i -X POST -H 'Content-Type:application/json' -d'{"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"host.create","params":{"host":"'$host'","interfaces":[{"type":1,"main":1,"useip":1,"ip":"'$hostip'","dns":"","port":"10050"}],"groups":[{"groupid":2}],"templates":[{"templateid":"'$templateid'"}],"inventory_mode":1},"auth":"'$authtoken'","id":0}' $api

Any help or insight would be much appreciated- thanks.

I was able to resolve by simply specifying manual host inventory.