Updating Zabbix Global Macros
Falcon-XR opened this issue · 1 comments
Hi,
I've searched all over and can't seem to see anything that would answer my question.
I am trying to update a global macro inside our zabbix server. My reason for doing this is Zabbix doesn't allow values from an item to be added to a macro. So my intention is to run this code everyday so that a date 30 days ahead will be updated into a macro. This macro will make up part of a web scenario - basically trying to find the response time to a query for one of our web servers. (you probably didn't need to know all that but it gives it some context)
I am absolutely, and in no way, a coder. I decided on Python as it appears to be far less evil than Javascript :)
I know the code below gives the date and date format I want however but when it tries to update the macro it doesn't enjoy life at all and creates the following error:
pyzabbix.api.ZabbixAPIException: ('Error -32602: Invalid params., Invalid parameter "/1": unexpected parameter "globalmacro".', -32602)
The global macro does exist and the date that is the other parameter is 2023-04-22 (well for today anyway :)). I am thinking that pyzabbix doesn't support updating global macros?
import pyzabbix
import datetime
Set up the Zabbix API connection
zabbix_url = 'http://blahblahblah/zabbix/api_jsonrpc.php'
zabbix_user = 'username'
zabbix_pass = 'password'
zabbix_api = pyzabbix.ZabbixAPI(zabbix_url)
zabbix_api.login(zabbix_user, zabbix_pass)
Calculate the date 30 days from now
today = datetime.date.today()
future_date = today + datetime.timedelta(days=30)
future_date_string = future_date.strftime('%Y-%m-%d')
Update the Zabbix global macro with the new date
macro_name = '{$DATE_TEST_30}'
macro_value = future_date_string
zabbix_api.usermacro.update(globalmacro=macro_name, value=macro_value)
Close the Zabbix API connection
zabbix_api.user.logout()
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated
Cheers
Marc
I'll assume you have zabbix 6.4 since you didn't provide any version.
If you look at the zabbix docs:
- https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/current/en/manual/api/reference/usermacro/update
- https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/current/en/manual/api/reference/usermacro/object
You should see that you need globalmacroid to update the macro.
I recommend you to query any object before trying to update it, for macros or any other operation with this library.