How to get lists of zabbix objects

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The zabbix modules allow you to retrieve specific named objects, for example:

  • zabbix_host_info gets a specific host (using the required proxy_name parameter)
  • zabbix_template_info gets a specific template (using the required template_name parameter)

But as the xxx_name parameter is usually mandatory I do not see a way of getting a complete list of hosts or templates.

Am I overlooking something, is it possible to get lists of different zabbix objects?

(Using Community.Zabbix version 3.3.0, Ansible 2.17.12)

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This sounds more like an inventory plugin (which community.zabbix also provides).

That should allow you to pull in all your objects as part of your inventory.

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I don’t think zabbix_host_info requires any parameters. For example, there’s a test getting all hosts this way: community.zabbix/tests/integration/targets/test_zabbix_host_info/tasks/main.yml at main · ansible-collections/community.zabbix · GitHub

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Thanks, you are right. My mistake about hosts. I still have the problem for other objects, e.g. templates and services, but I might be able to extract everything I need from a full list of hosts.

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Thanks, the inventory plugin is a possibility. I’ll know as soon as I can get it working!

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@plaxos glad you got it working.

Is there anything we could do to improve the documentation?

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Nothing wrong with the documentation. My reading of it was less than perfect.

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Isn’t this what lookup plugins are meant for? Would be nice if the zabbix collection would have those.
Something like query(‘community.zabbix.templates’) to get all templates, and query(‘community.zabbix.templates’, filter=foofoo) to apply filters.