On this example I use CURL to call api.
First you need to generate token to identifying you credentials.
Check API version
curl -H "Content-Type:
application/json-rpc" -X POST http://zabbix/zabbix/api_jsonrpc.php
-d
'{"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"apiinfo.version","id":1,"auth":null,"params":{}}'
Generate API token
curl -i -X POST -H
'Content-type:application/json' -d
'{"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"user.login","params":{
"user":"adm***","password":"****"},"auth":null,"id":0}'
http://zabbix/zabbix/api_jsonrpc.php
Check host ID not using API
Login to zabbix and
show configuration of you host, ID of this host will be in URL address
It is a simplest way to find your host ID.
Prepare new item using existing item
Creating item require id of host and id of interface which is used to check item.
When you know the host ID you can create simple item from interface and next create item based on existing item.
To get configuration of item you need to specify item.key
Simple json file to call api:
{
"jsonrpc": "2.0",
"method": "item.get",
"params": {
"output": "extend",
"hostids": "10336",
"search": {
"key_": "system.uptime"
},
"sortfield": "name"
},
"auth": "193ab2b48e6c428477869f6dcfa4dd26",
"id": 1
}
10336 - is your hostid
system.uptime - is you item.key which you want to show
auth - your token genarated in step generate api token.
Save you file as js.json and call
curl -i -X POST -H 'Content-type:application/json' -d @js.json http://zabbix/zabbix/api_jsonrpc.php
Your output should look like this
{
"jsonrpc": "2.0",
"result": [
{
"itemid": "54816",
"type": "0",
"snmp_community": "",
"snmp_oid": "",
"hostid": "10336",
"name": "System uptime",
"key_": "system.uptime",
"delay": "1m",
"history": "1w",
"trends": "365d",
"status": "0",
"value_type": "3",
"trapper_hosts": "",
"units": "uptime",
"snmpv3_securityname": "",
"snmpv3_securitylevel": "0",
"snmpv3_authpassphrase": "",
"snmpv3_privpassphrase": "",
"formula": "",
"error": "",
"lastlogsize": "0",
"logtimefmt": "",
"templateid": "23150",
"valuemapid": "0",
"params": "",
"ipmi_sensor": "",
"authtype": "0",
"username": "",
"password": "",
"publickey": "",
"privatekey": "",
"mtime": "0",
"flags": "0",
"interfaceid": "219",
"port": "",
"description": "",
"inventory_link": "0",
"lifetime": "30d",
"snmpv3_authprotocol": "0",
"snmpv3_privprotocol": "0",
"state": "0",
"snmpv3_contextname": "",
"evaltype": "0",
"jmx_endpoint": "",
"master_itemid": "0",
"lastclock": "1537556736",
"lastns": "842421756",
"lastvalue": "13830471",
"prevvalue": "13830411"
}
],
"id": 1
}
From this values you can check important keys:
itemid
interfaceid
and many others
Now you can customize and create your new item.
Create new item (with using SNMP)
Create json file item.json:
{
"jsonrpc":
"2.0",
"method":
"item.create",
"params":
{
"name":
"Active_Connection",
"key_":
"Active_Connection",
"hostid":
"10336",
"delay":
"60s",
"history":
"90d",
"type":
1,
"trends":
"365d",
"status":
"0",
"value_type":
"3",
"snmp_oid":
"1.3.6.1.4.1.140.625.190.1.25.16.18.144.146.180.197.194.18.77.60.51.78.5.246.62.52.18",
"snmp_community":
"public",
"interfaceid":
"219",
"port":
"1161"
},
"auth":
"e8a754b6fb4c55932bc6205dac3af55a",
"id":
0
}
And run
curl -i -X POST -H
'Content-type:application/json' -d @item.json http://zabbix/zabbix/api_jsonrpc.php
