community.zabbix.zabbix_templategroup module – Create/delete Zabbix template groups
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_templategroup
.
Synopsis
Create template groups if they do not exist.
Delete existing template groups if they exist.
Requirements
The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.
python >= 2.6
Parameters
Parameter |
Comments |
---|---|
Basic Auth password |
|
Basic Auth login |
|
Create or delete template group. Choices:
|
|
List of template groups to create or delete. |
Notes
Note
Too many concurrent updates to the same group may cause Zabbix to return errors, see examples for a workaround if needed.
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
# Base create template groups example
- name: Create template groups
# 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_templategroup:
state: present
template_groups:
- Example group1
- Example group2
# Limit the Zabbix group creations to one template since Zabbix can return an error when doing concurrent updates
- name: Create template groups
# 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_templategroup:
state: present
template_groups:
- Example group1
- Example group2
when: inventory_hostname==groups['group_name'][0]