XML Parsing

[Voxie]

Hi,

We have an device that only can provide me information in a XML file.
Is it possible to pull the information from the XML file and import it into zabbix.

I can create an script to do it for me but maybe somebody already created it.

[diveratis]

It depends what "data" refers to as this could refer to anything.

I believe you can just directly import the .xml file into the ZABBIX Webserver.
provided it follows the standard Zabbix template

If you wanted to do this via API:

Refer to:

https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/2.0/manual/appendix/api/configuration/import

In the example provided above, you can similarly set 'format' : 'xml' and then set the source as the entire xml file. Note the 'source' : '<entire xml file as a string>' portion, so you'll need to do some sort of file.open -> read the entire file and set it to a variable. I've had some really annoying problems doing this if the .xml file was large though.

There are already some pre-existing scripts in:

https://www.zabbix.org/wiki/Docs/api/libraries

If you wanted to build off an existing one, but I figured it's probably easier to create your own.