Get hosts from hostgroup and NOT from subgroups

[olegus]

We have an hierarchy groups like Product/Dep/Group .
We accidentally put some hosts in /Product/Dep instead of Product/Dep/Group and we need some how to move them down a level.
Is it possible to achieve that in GUI?
If I select Product/Dep group it brings all hosts from all subgroups and there is no way to filter hosts by GroupID.
If not possible in GUI:
I can query API to receive hosts by specific GroupID and looks like I can use host.massupdate call to replace a group but doc examples are not very clear. Can someone give me a proper host.massupdate example to replace a group?

[Brambo]

on a single host:
or use mass update to first add the new host group and then with mass update remove the old host group. This is really basic functionality

[olegus]

Idont think it will work in my case - My first problem is how to filter hosts that only belong to /Product/Dep without selecting those that belong to Product/Dep/Group. When I filter hosts for /Product/Dep , it will also bring hosts from subgroups - Product/Dep/Group1, Product/Dep/Group2 etc. I need to mass update only these hosts that are located in /Product/Dep only and move them to, say, /Product/Dep/Group1.

[Brambo]

olegus easiest way is to use tags for each host the (sub)folders are shown and as far as I know you can disable that.
Setup you tags on the lowest folder level first with a mass update and work you way up the tree.
e.g. in the sub folder tag hostgroup : dep/group1
other sub group tag hostgroup : deb/group2
etc etc and you can filter if a host has a tag hostgroup (or doesn't have it) or maybe a certain value

[olegus]

That should work , but seems too much work, API way seems better at this moment

[cyber]

{
    "jsonrpc": "2.0",
    "method": "host.massupdate",
    "params": {
        "hosts": [
            {
                "hostid": "ID1"
            },
            {
                "hostid": "ID1"
            },
            ...
            {
                "hostid": "IDn"
            }
        ],
        "groups": [
            {
                "groupid": "GID1"
            },
            {
                "groupid": "GID2"
            }
        ]
    },
    "id": 1
}​

I think ...

[olegus]

Yep looks like this is the fastest way...