community.zabbix.zabbix_correlation module – Create/update/delete Zabbix correlation

Note

This module is part of the community.zabbix collection (version 3.3.0).

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_correlation.

New in community.zabbix 2.4.0

Synopsis

  • This module allows you to create, update and delete Zabbix correlation.

Requirements

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

  • python >= 3.9

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

description

string

Description of this correlation

filter

dictionary

A filter.

conditions

list / elements=dictionary / required

A condition.

formulaid

string

Arbitrary unique ID that is used to reference the condition from a custom expression.

This parameter’s value must be only contain capital-case letters.

This parameter is required if value of evaltype of the filter is custom_expression.

hostgroup

string

A name of hostgroup name

This parameter is required if value of type of the condition is new_event_host_group.

newtag

string

New event tag.

This parameter is required if value of type of the condition is event_tag_pair.

oldtag

string

Old event tag.

This parameter is required if value of type of the condition is event_tag_pair.

operator

string

Condition operator.

This parameter is required if value of type of the condition is new_event_host_group, old_event_tag_value or new_event_tag_value.

You can only select equal or not_equal if value of type of the condition is new_event_host_group.

Choices:

  • "equal"

  • "not_equal"

  • "like"

  • "not_like"

tag

string

Event tag (old or new).

This parameter is required if value of type of the condition is old_event_tag, new_event_tag, old_event_tag_value or new_event_tag_value.

type

string / required

Type of the condition.

Choices:

  • "old_event_tag"

  • "new_event_tag"

  • "new_event_host_group"

  • "event_tag_pair"

  • "old_event_tag_value"

  • "new_event_tag_value"

value

string

Event tag (old or new) value.

This parameter is required if value of type of the condition is old_event_tag_value or new_event_tag_value.

evaltype

string / required

An evaluation method of the filter.

Choices:

  • "and_or"

  • "and"

  • "or"

  • "custom_expression"

formula

string

A custom expression for the filter.

This parameter is required if value of evaltype is custom_expression.

http_login_password

string

Basic Auth password

http_login_user

string

Basic Auth login

name

string / required

Name of this correlation

operations

list / elements=dictionary

A operations.

type

string / required

Type of the operation.

Choices:

  • "close_old_events"

  • "close_new_event"

state

string

State of the correlation.

Choices:

  • "present" ← (default)

  • "absent"

status

string

Status of the correlation.

Choices:

  • "enabled" ← (default)

  • "disabled"

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: Create correlation of 'New event tag correlation'
  # 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_correlation:
    name: New event tag correlation
    filter:
      evaltype: and_or
      conditions:
        - type: new_event_tag
          tag: ok
    operations:
      - type: close_old_events

Return Values

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

Key

Description

msg

string

The result of the operation

Returned: success

Sample: "Successfully created correlation"

Authors

  • ONODERA Masaru(@masa-orca)