How to get host where problem appears Zabbix-api

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I’m trying to make a script on Python, which works with zabbix-api.

For example: Trigger worked, problem appears and then I make an "action trigger", which will work on that host, where problem appeared. For the script, I need to get host (and host id), where problem appeared and then resolve the problem. But I don’t know how to get only this host.
Please, could you help me with this or maybe give me some advice, what am I doing wrong?

I tried something like:

my_host = zabbix_log.host.get(limit=1, output=["hostid", "name", "host"])[0]

Of course, it works, but I understand, that this is only give to me some random host, and not the host where problem appeared

Asked By: ekaterinochkus

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Answer 1

Question 1: how to find all hosts with problems?

Use the problem.get method. You can then filter by $.name the resulting JSON, if needed.

See:
https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/current/en/manual/api/reference/problem/get

Question 2: how to close a problem?

Use the event.acknowledge method.

See:

Answered By: Iron Bishop

Answer 2

I used command line arguments (macros) for resolving my issue. The point was to get hostname and hostid where problem appears.

So inside "script window" in global scripts I wrote something like:

python script.py {HOSTNAME} {HOST.ID}

And in the script.py:

import sys

hostname = sys.argv[1]
hostid = sys.argv[2]

Supported macros:

https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/6.2/en/manual/appendix/macros/supported_by_location

Answered By: ekaterinochkus

How to get host where problem appears Zabbix-api

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