Zabbix api: create template with web scenario

[Andrius Jurkus]

Hello,

I m trying to create template with web scenarios through zabbix api (through salt originally https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest..._template.html ).

Problem is zabbix api doenst return errors, I assume there is some mistake in my json, but zabbix api returns

{'jsonrpc': '2.0', 'result': {'templateids': ['10282']}, 'id': '1'}

At first I thought its salt state which doesnt return anything so I tried using something different. "pyzabbix" with simple json example, It does create template, but no webscenario and no errors. How can I get proper debug output from zabbix? or can someone point out where mistake is in my httptest json example?

PS I tried many variations this is very simplified down json. But trying to guess in the dark is hard.

PPS I can create web scenario directly to host, but I want to make a template.

from pyzabbix.api import ZabbixAPI
import pdb

# Create ZabbixAPI class instance
zapi = ZabbixAPI(url='http://10.10.10.102/zabbix/', user='Admin', password='zabbix')

# Get all monitored hosts
result1 = zapi.host.get(monitored_hosts=1, output='extend')

# Get all disabled hosts
result2 = zapi.do_request('template.create',
                          {
"host": "Linux templateaa",
"groups": {
  "groupid": 1
},
"applications": {
  "name": "web checks"
},
"httptests": {
  "name": "google.lt",
  "steps": {
    "name": "google.lt",
    "url": "https://google.lt",
    "status_codes": 200,
    "no": 1
  }


}
                          })
print ("\nprinting result below")
print ( result2)
#pdb.set_trace()
# Logout from Zabbix
zapi.user.logout()

[mcxian]

I found myself trying to do exactly the same thing and found your post. Turns out, creating a web scenario is not part of the template API, but instead has its own (this probably is a legacy holdover from before web scenarios were part of templates)

Here's an example of creating a web scenario through the API. The hostid I used was that of an existing template, which resulted in this scenario being created on the template as desired.

from pyzabbix.api import ZabbixAPI
zapi = ZabbixAPI(url='http://zab-server/zabbix/', user='Admin', password='zabbix')
web_results = zapi.do_request('httptest.create',
{
"name": "myapp test api2",
"hostid": "10327",
"steps": [
    {
      "name": "load page",
      "url": "http://salt-client1/",
      "status_codes": "200",
      "required": "name:",
      "no": 1
    }
  ]
})
print (web_results)
# Logout from Zabbix
zapi.user.logout()

Since this uses the httptest.create function rather than template.create, Saltstack does not yet support it. I'll see if I can submit a PR to incorporate this functionality.