Zabbix API

[develo999]

does Zabbix has an API, to which i can send XML or JSON or any other format,
that will raise and alarm or remove it?

[brunohl]

I don't know if I got what you mean, but Zabbix has an API to close events:

https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/4.0/manual/api/reference/event/acknowledge

[develo999]

thanks, this is only close event,
i want also raise event using API.

[brunohl]

I guess that's not possible.

The only way to raise an event that I know is to make an item value activate a trigger. What you could do is use zabbix_sender to send data activate a custom trigger for each problem you want to create.

[develo999]

can i test and make alert from command line?

[brunohl]

You will not create an alert from command line, you will send a value to an item that will activate a trigger, thus creating a problem.

[develo999]

ok how can i do that? only with an agent?

[brunohl]

Actually you can use something that wraps zabbix_sender, like (https://www.npmjs.com/package/node-zabbix-sender) or event zabbix_sender cli (https://www.zabbix.com/documentation...oncepts/sender) and use Zabbix Trapper on item configuration.

[kloczek]

thanks, this is only close event,
i want also raise event using API.

You cannot do that.
Events are created by triggers .. automatically.
Zabbix it is not ticket system. It is monitoring software which means that this software processes monitoring data and as few types of the outcomes are produced out of those data alarms.
Rising alarm manually would change zabbix to something which no longer would be monitoring software.

[develo999]

How event is raised today?
you setup a trigger and the zabbix event send an alert to the server.
i look for tha API solution becuase there are system that can send http but can't install an agent on them.

[develo999]

Actually you can use something that wraps zabbix_sender, like (https://www.npmjs.com/package/node-zabbix-sender) or event zabbix_sender cli (https://www.zabbix.com/documentation...oncepts/sender) and use Zabbix Trapper on item configuration.

brunohl - this can be good solution too, where can i get the command tool?

[ZaBeast]

zabbix_sender tool comes with agent, just install Zabbix agent.