Using API to add/update/delete macros

[chubz]

http://www.zabbix.com/documentation/...pi/host/update
^ States that with the host.update in API, you can "Update host macros. Missing macros will be added, existing updated, others deleted."

So there are 3 macros I have. And When I try to update one of them it says that that macro already exists. Also how would I go about deleting a macro? The documentation did not go into depth with this and I am curious.
So far I have a work around the solution. For the time being I send a JSON object that just adds an empty macro, which deletes every other macro(why?). Then i send a second JSON object with all the macros I want(that's how I'm "updating" macros)

Is there a cleaner method to do so?

[wesmason]

Yeah, this still seems to be under explained. I would appreciate a 'add', 'update', 'delete' section containing values to perform those actions against.

Ex:

{
    "jsonrpc": "2.0",
    "method": "host.update",
    "params": {
        "hostid": "10126",
        "macros": {
            "add": {
                "{$MACRO1}": "value",
                "{$MACRO2}": "5"
            },
            "delete": [
                "{$MACRO4}"
            ],
            "update": {
                "{$MACRO3}": "new_value"
            }
        }
    },
    "auth": "038e1d7b1735c6a5436ee9eae095879e",
    "id": 1
}

[Vlaad]

there is usermacro.update method to work with macros. you need to know the macros ID only, hostID is not required.
it works with hosts and templates

use the usermacro.get method to search hostmacroid by name:

zbx.usermacro.get(
            hostids = host_id,
            filter = {
                "macro": "{$THE.MACROS}",
                },
            )

response example:

{
    "jsonrpc": "2.0",
    "result": [
        {
            "macro": "{$THE.MACROS}",
            "hostmacroid": "777",
            "hostid": "10309",
            "value": "MACROS.VALUE"
        }
    ],
    "id": "1"
}

then, update it:

zbx.usermacro.update(
            hostmacroid = "777",
            value = new_value,
        )

response example:

{
    "jsonrpc": "2.0",
    "result": {
        "hostmacroids": [
            "777"
        ]
    },
    "id": "1"
}

again, hostmacroid works with hosts and templates

[SergeiChechev]

At the moment I get macros without an hostmacroids, is it something that has changed in the new zabix api? I use zabbix docker 6.0
zabbix.get

[{ 10517 {$NEW_MACROS} 2} { 10517 {$TEST1} 33}]

And when I try to create I get error too

Invalid parameter "/1": unexpected parameter "hostmacroids

[sandreev]

Any updates on the issue? As for now,

usermacro.update

is marked as deprecated, and in

host.update

you can't update single macro - only overwrite entire array of macros, which is not appropriate if you have secret values