Quickstart guide¶

Install¶

You can install Zabbix modules for Python with pip:

pip install py-zabbix

Examples¶

ZabbixAPI¶

You can make zabbix api call with two ways.

By With dynamicaly mapping pyzabbix.api.ZabbixAPI methods on zabbix api:

result = zapi.host.get(status=1)

By passing zabbix api function and arguments as parameters:

result = zapi.do_request('host.get', {'status':1})

Get list of not monitored hosts from zabbix¶

from pyzabbix import ZabbixAPI

# Create ZabbixAPI class instance
zapi = ZabbixAPI(url='https://localhost/zabbix/', user='admin', password='zabbix')

# Get all disabled hosts
result = zapi.host.get(status=1)
hostnames = [host['host'] for host in result1]

# Other way to get all disabled hosts
result2 = zapi.do_request('host.get', {'status':1})
hostnames2 = [host['host'] for host in result2['result']]

ZabbixSender¶

Send metric to zabbix¶

metrics= [ZabbixMetric('localhost', 'cpu[usage]', '15.4')]
ZabbixSender(use_config=True).send(metrics)

Usage with zabbix_agentd.conf¶

If your box already have zabbix_agent installed. Py-zabbix can use zabbix server from zabbix_agentd.conf file.

from pyzabbix import ZabbixMetric, ZabbixSender

packet = [
  ZabbixMetric('centos', 'test[cpu_usage]', 2),
  ZabbixMetric('centos', 'test[system_status]', "OK"),
  ZabbixMetric('centos', 'test[disk_io]', '0.1'),
  ZabbixMetric('centos', 'test[cpu_usage]', 20, 1411598020),
  ZabbixMetric('centos', 'test[cpu_usage]', 30, 1411598120),
  ZabbixMetric('centos', 'test[cpu_usage]', 40, 1411598240),
]

sender = ZabbixSender(use_config=True)
sender.send(packet)