This document discusses how to interface with Zabbix using the Zabbix API and related tools. It describes the Zabbix API and how it enables controlling Zabbix through programs. It also covers some command line and library tools for the Zabbix API as well as other protocols like Zabbix Get and Zabbix Sender that can be used to send and retrieve data from Zabbix.

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

2. Takanori Suzuki Member of Zabbix-JP, Zabbix community in Japan.

3. Reported bugs and Posted patches. Crashing bug patch

4. Zabbix proxy stop sending data bug patch

5. Disk monitoring improvement patch for LVM

7. Zabbix An enterprise-class open source distributed monitoring solution. auto-discovery of servers and network devices

8. distributed monitoring with centralised WEB administration

9. server software for many Un*x

10. native high performance agents for almost all famous OS

11. agent-less monitoring

12. web-based interface

13. etc…

14. Zabbix API

15. Zabbix API Zabbix supports Zabbix API from 1.8

16. Zabbix API enables us to control Zabbix by program.

17. Though API spec is not fixed as far as 1.8.x release, some users started to use API Before Zabbix API No command line tool to control Zabbix monitoring settings

18. There is no way to control Zabbix from external programs except directly executing DB query. After Zabbix API We can control Zabbix easily from programs.

19. Non official command line tools are available.

20. Mobile phone applications for Zabbix are released

21. Zabbix API Zabbix API Refernce URL: http://www.zabbix.com/documentation/1.8/api Functions Get, create, delete, update are supported on hosts, items, triggers, actions and many other objects. Now there are many useful tools zabcon, command line zabbix managing tool

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

23. zabcon One of the earliest programs using Zabbix API

24. Enables controlking Zabbix by command line and interactive shell

25. Installable by Ruby gem

26. Site URL: http://trac.red-tux.net/wiki/zbx_api/zabcon

27. zabcon: How to use Executing ./zabcon.rb it works as interactive shell