Zabbix API Search

[rreilly]

I am trying to get items by searching on hostid and item name is this possible ? It seems to me the item name is not searchable, but thought i would double check...
Thanks
Rob

[tsalle]

Hi,
In which langage are you using the API ?
You should use the search parameter in the item.get query :

{
    "jsonrpc": "2.0",
    "method": "item.get",
    "params": {
        "hostids": "10084",
        "search": {
            "description": "description to search"
        },
        "sortfield": "name"
    },
    "auth": "038e1d7b1735c6a5436ee9eae095879e",
    "id": 1
}

[rreilly]

Hi, I am using php I wanted to specify a hostid and search for an item by name, I found i could not get that to work. I could however get all items for a hostid and filter all but the one i wanted ...
Robert

[tsalle]

You can use PhpZabbixApi : http://zabbixapi.confirm.ch

Youre query will be like :

$api = new ZabbixApi('http://zabbix.local/api_jsonrpc.php', 'zabbix', 'admin');

// get all items named "CPU"
$cpuItems = $api->itemGet(array(
        'hostid'  => $hostid,
        'searchWildcardsEnabled' => true,
        'search' => array('description' => '*CPU*')
    ));