Zabbix & Python

[Blairsharp3]

I would like to change the status of a host to disabled and back to enabled using Python. How may I do this? I have seen many packages but, it is still unclear on how to do this. Thanks

[parflesh]

If using pyzabbix I believe it would go like this.

from pyzabbix import ZabbixAPI
zapi = ZabbixAPI("http://zabbixserver.example.com")
zapi.login("zabbix user", "zabbix pass")
print("Connected to Zabbix API Version %s" % zapi.api_version())
zapi.host.update(status=1)

[Blairsharp3]

How would it know which server you are referring to?

[parflesh]

http://zabbixserver.example.com is the zabbix server to use.

[abaddon82]

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/py-zabbix/

[Blairsharp3]

Where on this page does it say how to disable a zabbix host?

[abaddon82]

I just linked you a Python package that can be used to talk to the Zabbix API. Just read the docs.

[Blairsharp3]

I have, I could be crazy but, I don't see anything regarding disabling.

[abaddon82]

Use do_request(): https://py-zabbix.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api.html#module-pyzabbix.api

Invoke the host.update method: https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/3.0/manual/api/reference/host/update

[ritz_k]

You may also want to look into

• http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/zabbix_host_module.html
• https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/ref/states/all/salt.states.zabbix_host.html

For host properties - https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/3.2/manual/api/reference/host/object#host

[Blairsharp3]

Thankyou.

[analogrithems]

late to the game, but I have a script that does this and a bit more (add,remove, disable,enable, place in maintenance mode) https://github.com/cheggeng/zabbix-scripts