pyzab

A simple Python implementation of a Zabbix API wrapper.

Installation

Simply install the https://pypi.org/project/pyzab/ package: pip install pyzab

Usage

First, make sure to have a .env file alongside your script, with your credentials. This helps keep your url and token away from version control by adding it to .gitignore. This is optional, but strongly recommended. If you skip this step, initialize the Zabbix class with your credential strings. The optional .env file should look like this:

## .env.py
zabbix_auth_token='key_from_zabbix_api'
zabbix_url='zabbix_api_url'

On a new python file, import the Zabbix class:

## my_new_zabbix_script.py
from pyzab import Zabbix

Now import and load the .env file (otherwise, use the url and token as strings):

## my_new_zabbix_script.py
from dotenv import load_dotenv # pip install python-dotenv
load_dotenv()

You can now initialize the Pyzab Zabbix api wrapper, and begin making api calls:

## my_new_zabbix_script.py
zabbix = pyzab.Zabbix(os.getenv('zabbix_url'), os.getenv('zabbix_auth_token')) # or zabbix = pyzab.Zabbix('http://your_url/:8080/api_jsonrpc.php', 'your_zabbix_api_token')
all_hosts = zabbix.get_all_hosts() # returns a list with all hosts.

Examples

Example 1: Add a new host to Zabbix server

After you initialize the wrapper as shown above:

zabbix = pyzab.Zabbix(os.getenv('zabbix_url'), os.getenv('zabbix_auth_token'))
new_host = zabbix.create_host(hostname="new_hostname", ip="10.99.99.99", group_id="5", templateid="10186") # You can get groupid and templateid from the zabbix front end with debug enabled

The create_host method returns a python Dict with the new host's 'hostid' (inside a list, we need to index it) to the new_host variable. We can then check the new host's data with another api call:

new_host_data = zabbix.get_host(host_id=new_host['hostids'][0])