API not returning all hostgroups

[norrisemoe]

Hi All,

Strange issue I am having a problem with my Zabbix API, the following code I believe should return all hostgroups:

ZabbixAPI.hostgroup.get()

This is part of the pyzabbix API from here: https://github.com/lukecyca/pyzabbix

I am finding that it is not returning any hostgroups I am adding above groupid 161.

ZabbixAPI.login(apiadmin,**********)
Call user.login method
urllib2.Request(https://zabbix.wifinity.com/api_jsonrpc.php, {"params": {"password": "**********", "user": "apiadmin"}, "jsonrpc": "2.0", "method": "user.login", "id": "1"})
Response Body: {
"jsonrpc": "2.0",
"result": "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx",
"id": "1"
}

JSON-PRC Server: https://zabbix.wifinity.com/api_jsonrpc.php

Call hostgroup.get method
urllib2.Request(https://zabbix.wifinity.com/api_jsonrpc.php, {"params": {}, "jsonrpc": "2.0", "method": "hostgroup.get", "auth": "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx", "id": "1"})
Response Body: {
"jsonrpc": "2.0",
"result": [
{
"internal": "0",
"flags": "0",
"groupid": "4",
"name": "Zabbix servers"
},

etc.. but never reaches any groupids beyond 160.

Is this a known error?

[norrisemoe]

Losing Hope

Hi all,

To work around this problem I have changed my query, it is actually far more efficient but it does worry me that the API is not working as expected in this case.

Any answers would be appreciated.

[norrisemoe]

Answered by a kind reddit user

A kind reddit user gave an obvious answer:

Perhaps you don't have permissions to the missing host groups?

Thanks Alexvl and to everyone out there having this problem, go check your permissions.

[safpsr]

All groups access

Is there a way to define an API user who can acces to "All groups" in read access without manual action when a new group is defined ?

Thanks