community.zabbix.zabbix_host_events_info – Get all triggers about a Zabbix host

Note

This plugin is part of the community.zabbix collection (version 1.3.0).

To install it use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.zabbix.

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

Synopsis

• This module allows you to see if a Zabbix host have no active alert to make actions on it. For this case use module Ansible ‘fail’ to exclude host in trouble.

• Length of “triggers_ok” allow if template’s triggers exist for Zabbix Host

Requirements

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

• python >= 2.7

• zabbix-api >= 0.5.3

Parameters

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Comments
host_id_type string	Choices: hostname ← visible_name hostid	Type of host_identifier
host_identifier string / required		Identifier of Zabbix Host
http_login_password string		Basic Auth password
http_login_user string		Basic Auth login
login_password string / required		Zabbix user password.
login_user string / required		Zabbix user name.
server_url string / required		URL of Zabbix server, with protocol (http or https). url is an alias for server_url. aliases: url
timeout integer	Default: 10	The timeout of API request (seconds).
trigger_severity string	Choices: not_classified information warning average ← high disaster	Zabbix severity for search filter
validate_certs boolean	Choices: no yes ←	If set to False, SSL certificates will not be validated. This should only be used on personally controlled sites using self-signed certificates.

Notes

Note

• If you use login_password=zabbix, the word “zabbix” is replaced by “****” in all module output, because login_password uses no_log. See this FAQ for more information.

Examples

- name: exclude machine if alert active on it
  community.zabbix.zabbix_host_events_info:
      server_url: "{{ zabbix_url }}"
      login_user: "{{ lookup('env','ZABBIX_USER') }}"
      login_password: "{{ lookup('env','ZABBIX_PASSWORD') }}"
      host_identifier: "{{inventory_hostname}}"
      host_id_type: "hostname"
      timeout: 120
  register: zbx_host
  delegate_to: localhost
- fail:
    msg: "machine alert in zabbix"
  when: zbx_host['triggers_problem']|length > 0

Return Values

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

Key				Returned	Description
triggers_ok complex				On success	Host Zabbix Triggers in OK state
	comments string			success	Additional description of the trigger
	description string			success	Name of the trigger
	error string			success	Error text if there have been any problems when updating the state of the trigger
	expression string			success	Reduced trigger expression
	flags integer			success	Origin of the trigger
	lastchange integer			success	Time when the trigger last changed its state (timestamp)
	priority integer			success	Severity of the trigger
	state integer			success	State of the trigger
	status integer			success	Whether the trigger is enabled or disabled
	templateid integer			success	ID of the parent template trigger
	triggerid integer			success	ID of the trigger
	type integer			success	Whether the trigger can generate multiple problem events
	url string			success	URL associated with the trigger
	value integer			success	Whether the trigger is in OK or problem state
triggers_problem complex				On success	Host Zabbix Triggers in problem state. See trigger and event objects in API documentation of your zabbix version for more
	comments string			success	Additional description of the trigger
	description string			success	Name of the trigger
	error string			success	Error text if there have been any problems when updating the state of the trigger
	expression string			success	Reduced trigger expression
	flags integer			success	Origin of the trigger
	last_event complex			success	last event informations
		acknowledged integer		success	If set to true return only acknowledged events
		acknowledges complex		success	acknowledges informations
			alias string	success	Account who acknowledge
			clock integer	success	Time when the event was created (timestamp)
			message string	success	Text of the acknowledgement message
		clock integer		success	Time when the event was created (timestamp)
		eventid integer		success	ID of the event
		value integer		success	State of the related object
	lastchange integer			success	Time when the trigger last changed its state (timestamp)
	priority integer			success	Severity of the trigger
	state integer			success	State of the trigger
	status integer			success	Whether the trigger is enabled or disabled
	templateid integer			success	ID of the parent template trigger
	triggerid integer			success	ID of the trigger
	type integer			success	Whether the trigger can generate multiple problem events
	url string			success	URL associated with the trigger
	value integer			success	Whether the trigger is in OK or problem state

Authors

• Stéphane Travassac (@stravassac)