Zabbix API add a host to a hostgroup

[hvaithianathan]

Hi,

I am trying to add a host to a hostgroup using the python API

I get the groupid like this

group_id = zapi.hostgroup.get(output='extend',filter={"name":["group_name"]})
print group_id[0]['groupid']
19

and the hostID like this,
hostids=zapi.host.get(output='extend',filter={"hos t":["server_name"]})
print hostids[0]['hostid']
10122

Now I want to add the host with hostiD 10122 to the group with ID 19.
Somehow update isn't working for me. Can the ppl in the forum help please

[hvaithianathan]

Tried both the host and hostgroup update but its not working for me,

>>> test=zapi.hostgroup.update(groupid=19,hostid=10122 )
>>> print test
{u'groupids': [19]}


>>> test=zapi.host.update(hostid=10122,groupid=19)
>>> print test
{u'hostids': [u'10122']}

but the host is not assigned to the hostgroup (19). I have checked that the hostgroup.exists() and hostgroup.iswriteable() (similarly for the hosts) and its all True.

What am I doing wrongly here... Please help me.

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Update:
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I think I have been doing the zabbix update syntax wrongly. I corrected it like below,

zapi.hostgroup.update(hostid=10122,groups={"groupi d":19})

For which I am getting, Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/pyzabbix/__init__.py", line 140, in fn
args or kwargs
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/pyzabbix/__init__.py", line 117, in do_request
raise ZabbixAPIException(msg, response_json['error']['code'])
pyzabbix.ZabbixAPIException: ("Error -32500: Application error., No permissions to referred object or it does not exist! while sending {'params': {'hostid': 10122, 'groups': {'groupid': 19}}, 'jsonrpc': '2.0', 'method': 'hostgroup.update', 'auth': u'd971827d490709cbb6d519208708d4f5', 'id': 107}", -32500)

Is this some kind of a bug? Looks like its a permission error and my user is a super zabbix admin. Pls let me know how to solve this.
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The api version I am using is 2.2.4
print "Connected to Zabbix API Version %s" % zapi.api_version() Connected to Zabbix API Version 2.2.4
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Also I am a super zabbix admin and both the host and hostgroup are writeable

>>> zapi.host.iswritable(hostid=10122)
True
>>> zapi.hostgroup.iswritable(groupid=19)
True

I am out of options now
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