zabbix-gnomes

A collection of various scripts to automate tasks with the Zabbix API. My main goal is to create a set of simple utilities that can be reused in shell scripts without using a lot of curl voodoo.

All of these tools can be invoked with -h/--help to get help.

API tools:

• zapi.py - Interactive Zabbix API client.

History related:

• zgethistory.py - Gets values from history for an itemid.

Inv related:

• zhinvswitcher.py - Switches inv. mode on host(group)s.
• zgetinventory.py - Prints host inventory in CSV format.
• zhostupdater.py - Updates host properties.

Item related:

• zhitemfinder.py - Finds items on a host.
• zgethistory.py - Get item values from history (Trends are not supported!).

Graph related:

• zhgraphfinder.py - Finds graphs configured on a Zabbix host.
• zgetgraph.py - Downloads a graph .PNG from the Zabbix frontend (needs user frontend access) and saves it.

Group related:

• zghostfinder.py - Finds member hosts in a hostgroup.

Host related:

• zhostfinder.py - Finds hosts in Zabbix based on search string.
• zhostupdater.py - Updates hosts properties.

Proxy related:

• zhproxyfinder.py - Finds configured proxy for a Zabbix host.

Template related:

• ztmplimport.py - Imports .xml template into zabbix
• zhtmplfinder.py - Finds linked templates for a Zabbix host.
• zthostfinder.py - Finds hosts that are linked to a template.
• zthtmllinker.py - Links host(group)s to a list of templates.
• zthtmlunlink.py - Unlinks host(group)s from a list of templates.

Trigger related:

• zhtrigfinder.py - Finds triggers on a host.
• ztrigswitcher.py- Switches a trigger to enabled or discabled status.

Macro related:

• zhostupdater.py - Updates host properties.

Event related:

• zeventfinder.py - Finds events based on filters (includes a tail -f like mode).
• zgetevent.py - Gets details for eventids, including ack's and alert actions.
• zeventacker.py - Acknowledges events based on eventids.

Configuration

These programs can use .ini style configuration files to retrieve the needed API connection information. To use this type of storage, create a conf file (the default is $HOME/.zbx.conf) that contains at least the [Zabbix API] section and any of the other parameters:

[Zabbix API]
username=johndoe
password=verysecretpassword
api=https://zabbix.mycompany.com/path/to/zabbix/frontend/
no_verify=true

Setting no_verify to true will disable TLS/SSL certificate verification when using https.

The scripts will need the pyzabbix module, to install:

pip install pyzabbix

For working with graphs (zgetgraph.py specifically) install Pillow (a fork of PIL):

pip install pillow

Usage examples

Save a 1 month 'CPU load' graph starting on the 1st of January 2014 for the host server.example.com as ~/jan.png:

graphid=$(./zhgraphfinder.py -e server.example.com | grep 'CPU load' | cut -d ':' -f 1) ./zgetgraph.py -s $(date --date 'jan 1 2014' +%s) -t 2678400 -f ~/jan.png $graphid

Take note that this requires GNU date.

Using zproxyfinder.py to use the proper Zabbix proxy in a zabbix_sender script.

zabbix_sender -k $ITEMKEY -o $ITEMVALUE -s $HOSTNAME -z $(zhproxyfinder.py $HOSTNAME)

Using zhtmpllinker.py to link 3 templates to all the hosts in a hostgroup:

./zhtmpllinker.py -t "Template App Apache" "Template App MySQL" "Template OS Linux" -G "LAMP Servers"

Using zhtmplunlink.py to unlink a template from all the hosts in a hostgroup:

./zhtmplunlink.py -G "Webservers" -t "Template App MySQL"

Import all .xml templates verbosely from the directory 'templates' and continue with the next template on error.

./ztmplimport.py -v -C ./templates/*.xml

Get the latest item value from history for the item with itemid 1001

./zgethistory.py 1001 -C 1

Get a list of item values with timestamps and unit from history for a period of 2hr from Jan 1st 2014 00:00hr

./zgethistory.py -s $(date --date 'jan 1 2014' +%s) -t 7200 -e 1030

Disable the 'Unavailable by ICMP' trigger on the host named 'Google DNS'

./ztrigswitcher.py -D $(./zhtrigfinder.py -s "Unavailable by ICMP" -n "Google DNS")

Count the number of active triggers on the host 'Webserver'

./zhtrigfinder.py -A "Webserver" | wc -l

Switch the inventory mode to manual for all the hosts in a hostgroup

./zhinvswitcher.py -G "Linux Servers" -m manual

Switch the inventory mode to automatic on all the hosts in Zabbix

./zhinvswitcher.py --all-hosts

Find all the hosts in the 'Customer A' hostgroup that match a name that starts with 'web'

./zghostfinder.py "Customer A" | grep -i '^web.*'

Print the last known value for the available memory in Bytes on the host 'Webserver'

./zgethistory.py -C 1 $(./zhitemfinder.py -k 'vm.memory.size[available]' -n Webserver)

Perform a search for all monitored hosts matching the hostname string 'zabbix'

./zhostfinder.py -m -S zabbix

Output a CSV with hostid, hostname, OS, vendor and contact fields for all hosts in the 'Zabbix Servers' group

./zgetinventory.py -G "Zabbix Servers" -F "os" "vendor" "contact" > report.csv

Update the visible name of the host web001 to 'primary webserver'

./zhostupdater.py web001 -V 'primary webserver'

Enable the host web001, apply the macro {$APACHEPROC} and update the 'Sofware Application A' inv field

./zhostupdater.py web001 -E -M apacheproc=15 -I software_app_a="Apache"

Find all PROBLEM events during the last hour for the the hosts in the group 'Linux Servers' (Limited to 100 events)

./zeventfinder.py -P -t 3600 -G 'Linux Servers' 

Acknowledge 3 events with the message "Power outage"

./zeventacker.py -m "Power outage" 6578 6689 6590

Print details on 3 events including trigger comments, actions and acknowledgements

./zgetevent.py -ACL 6578 6689 6590 

Acknowledge all PROBLEM events in the last 15 minutes for the hosts in the 'Linux Serves' group

./zeventacker.py -m 'Foobar with Fabric :-(' $(./zeventfinder.py -i -P -t 900 -G 'Linux servers') 

Follow Zabbix trigger events for all hosts

./zeventfinder.py -L 10 --all-hosts -f

Using the zapi.py API client to test Zabbix API calls:

Logging in on 'https://zabbix.example.com/' with user 'Admin'.
Welcome to the interactive Zabbix API client.
zapi: z host.get(filter={"host": "Zabbix Server"})
[{u'hostid': u'1001'}]
zapi: 

List of inventory fields

Please see the Zabbix manual for your version of Zabbix for the latest list of supported fields, these are only here for your convience.

Property	Description
alias	Alias.
asset_tag	Asset tag.
chassis	Chassis.
contact	Contact person.
contract_number	Contract number.
date_hw_decomm	HW decommissioning date.
date_hw_expiry	HW maintenance expiry date.
date_hw_install	HW installation date.
date_hw_purchase	HW purchase date.
deployment_status	Deployment status.
hardware	Hardware.
hardware_full	Detailed hardware.
host_netmask	Host subnet mask.
host_networks	Host networks.
host_router	Host router.
hw_arch	HW architecture.
installer_name	Installer name.
location	Location.
location_lat	Location latitude.
location_lon	Location longitude.
macaddress_a	MAC address A.
macaddress_b	MAC address B.
model	Model.
name	Name.
notes	Notes.
oob_ip	OOB IP address.
oob_netmask	OOB host subnet mask.
oob_router	OOB router.
os	OS name.
os_full	Detailed OS name.
os_short	Short OS name.
poc_1_cell	Primary POC mobile number.
poc_1_email	Primary email.
poc_1_name	Primary POC name.
poc_1_notes	Primary POC notes.
poc_1_phone_a	Primary POC phone A.
poc_1_phone_b	Primary POC phone B.
poc_1_screen	Primary POC screen name.
poc_2_cell	Secondary POC mobile number.
poc_2_email	Secondary POC email.
poc_2_name	Secondary POC name.
poc_2_notes	Secondary POC notes.
poc_2_phone_a	Secondary POC phone A.
poc_2_phone_b	Secondary POC phone B.
poc_2_screen	Secondary POC screen name.
serialno_a	Serial number A.
serialno_b	Serial number B.
site_address_a	Site address A.
site_address_b	Site address B.
site_address_c	Site address C.
site_city	Site city.
site_country	Site country.
site_notes	Site notes.
site_rack	Site rack location.
site_state	Site state.
site_zip	Site ZIP/postal code.
software	Software.
software_app_a	Software application A.
software_app_b	Software application B.
software_app_c	Software application C.
software_app_d	Software application D.
software_app_e	Software application E.
software_full	Software details.
tag	Tag.
type	Type.
type_full	Type details.
url_a	URL A.
url_b	URL B.
url_c	URL C.
vendor	Vendor.