How to connect to zabbix 3.0 frontend via python

[Lorenzo Alfieri]

Hi I am trying to get the graph image connecting to the frontend via http request in python.

I know how to get the graph image, but I cant figure out how to login with urlib2.

What i have actualy is that :

def login(config):
    url = u'%s/index.php' % config.zabbix_frontend_url
    data = urlencode(dict(
        form='1',
        form_refresh='1',
        name=config.zabbix_username,
        password=config.zabbix_password,
        enter='Enter'))
    cookie_jar = CookieJar()
    cookie_processor = HTTPCookieProcessor(cookie_jar)
    opener = build_opener(cookie_processor)
    # since we only call the index page to login, we are not interested in the output    
    # TODO error handling                                                                
    install_opener(opener)
    urlopen(url, data)

Since its the first time i use urllib, it can come from that, or just i dont get how to connect to zabbix and handle the connection. PLease help me find out how to do that.

[peatb]

The best way to connect to zabbix here is by using the api. There is a complete implementation of that in python: pyzabbix.

On redhat based systems you can install that with:
# yum install python-pip
# pip install pyzabbix

I can also recommend the zabbix-gnomes which implements pyzabbix into easy to use scripts: https://github.com/q1x/zabbix-gnomes
(one of the gnomes is specifically made to fetch graphs)

[Lorenzo Alfieri]

I check that but i dont think i can get what i want with the API

[Lorenzo Alfieri]

Ok so simply in the code of what you linked, one of the script is used to get graph, zgetgraph.py, and i checked the code and see that to connect the field 'enter' is set to 'Sign in', while in 2.x it was "Enter".

That was the mistake i did since i use 3.0, so problem solved it work. Thank you for the link peatb.