API query for Host listing and status grabbing.

[psiquetp]

Hi guys, first of all thank you for your help.

So I got a basic requirement. I'm building a Java Swing app that displays a popup notification whenever a server is down.

I'm able to retrieve the authentification token no problems whatsoever, and I think I'm also able to query the host.get for hostid. Here is my query and what is returned:

{
"jsonrpc": "2.0",
"method": "host.get",
"params": { "output": ["hostid"], "selectParentTemplates": [ "templateid", "name" ] },
"auth": "7dc4d4850a00ee95e5aae9ae291c7999",
"id": "5"
}

{"jsonrpc":"2.0","result":[{"parentTemplates":[],"hostid":"10051"},{"parentTemplates":[],"hostid":"10052"},{"parentTemplates":[],"hostid":"10054"},{"parentTemplates":[],"hostid":"10056"},{"parentTemplates":[],"hostid":"10017"},{"parentTemplates":[],"hostid":"10055"}],"id":"5"}

I have played with the query but I just cannot get the list of names and the status.

If anybody can help me. Please also find attached the current configuration I'm facing.

[ingus.vilnis]

Hello and welcome!

I really can't advise you on Java and API programming issues, but aren't you satisfied with the built-in frontend messaging functions in Zabbix?

https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/2.2/manual/web_interface/user_profile/global_notifications

Best Regards,
Ingus

[psiquetp]

Have a particular requirements set.

Hi Ingus

Thank you for your reply. Well you know, I don't need help with the Java part... but I can't really find the correct information using the API... maybe I can try parsing that front end you are showing... though I bet my boss prefers the API option.

hopefully someone else can help.

Thanks