community.zabbix.zabbix_group_info module – Gather information about Zabbix hostgroup

Note

This module is part of the community.zabbix collection (version 2.5.1).

You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible package. It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.zabbix. You need further requirements to be able to use this module, see Requirements for details.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.zabbix.zabbix_group_info.

Synopsis

  • This module allows you to search for Zabbix hostgroup entries.

  • This module was called zabbix_group_facts before Ansible 2.9. The usage did not change.

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

  • python >= 3.9

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

hostgroup_name

list / elements=string / required

Name of the hostgroup in Zabbix.

hostgroup is the unique identifier used and cannot be updated using this module.

http_login_password

string

Basic Auth password

http_login_user

string

Basic Auth login

Examples

# If you want to use Username and Password to be authenticated by Zabbix Server
- name: Set credentials to access Zabbix Server API
  ansible.builtin.set_fact:
    ansible_user: Admin
    ansible_httpapi_pass: zabbix

# If you want to use API token to be authenticated by Zabbix Server
# https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/current/en/manual/web_interface/frontend_sections/administration/general#api-tokens
- name: Set API token
  ansible.builtin.set_fact:
    ansible_zabbix_auth_key: 8ec0d52432c15c91fcafe9888500cf9a607f44091ab554dbee860f6b44fac895

- name: Get hostgroup info
  # set task level variables as we change ansible_connection plugin here
  vars:
    ansible_network_os: community.zabbix.zabbix
    ansible_connection: httpapi
    ansible_httpapi_port: 443
    ansible_httpapi_use_ssl: true
    ansible_httpapi_validate_certs: false
    ansible_zabbix_url_path: "zabbixeu"  # If Zabbix WebUI runs on non-default (zabbix) path ,e.g. http://<FQDN>/zabbixeu
    ansible_host: zabbix-example-fqdn.org
  community.zabbix.zabbix_group_info:
    hostgroup_name:
      - ExampleHostgroup

Return Values

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Key

Description

host_groups

dictionary

List of Zabbix groups.

Returned: success

Sample: [{"flags": "0", "groupid": "33", "internal": "0", "name": "Hostgruup A"}]

Authors

  • Michael Miko (@RedWhiteMiko)