Zabbix API and related tools - How to interface with Zabbix- Takanori Suzuki

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Zabbix API

Zabbix API enables us to control Zabbix by program.

Non official command line tools are available.

Mobile phone applications for Zabbix are released

Libraries for API, easy to use from perl, php, ruby and python.

Enables controlking Zabbix by command line and interactive shell

Installable by Ruby gem

By redirecting Zabbix commands, it returns result. $ echo get host|./zabcon.rb hostid,host 10017,Zabbix Server $ echo 'get item hostids=10017'|./zabcon.rb itemid,description,key_ 18435,Ping to the server (TCP),agent.ping 18436,Version of zabbix_agent(d) running,agent.version 18438,Maximum number of opened files,kernel.maxfiles 18439,Maximum number of processes,kernel.maxproc … ...

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Using Zabbix API //get auth id $ curl -d '{"auth":null,"method":"user.authenticate","id":1,"params":{"password":"zabbix","user":"api_user"},"jsonrpc":"2.0"}' -H "Content-Type: application/json-rpc" http://localhost/zabbix185/api_jsonrpc.php //get item in "Zabbix Server" $ curl -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"item.get","params":{"output":"shorten","host":"Zabbix Server","limit":0},"auth":"PUT_HERE_AUTH_ID","id":1}' -H "Content-Type: application/json-rpc" http://localhost/zabbix185/api_jsonrpc.php

Ruby: http://trac.red-tux.net/wiki/zbx_api

Python: https://github.com/gescheit/scripts/tree/master/zabbix/

Perl: https://github.com/mikeda/ZabbixAPI

Zabbix web interface access functions without JSON, but directly access same functions.

If Zabbix web frontend is installed, we can use it by including 'include/config.inc.php' .

Other useful way to interface with Zabbix

Zabbix Sender protocol

Zabbix Agent (Active) protocol

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