community.zabbix.zabbix_item module – Create/delete Zabbix items

Note

This module is part of the community.zabbix collection (version 3.2.0).

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_item.

Synopsis

  • Create items if they do not exist.

  • Delete existing items if they exist.

Requirements

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

  • python >= 2.6

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

host_name

string

Name of host to add item to.

Required when template_name is not used.

Mutually exclusive with template_name.

http_login_password

string

Basic Auth password

http_login_user

string

Basic Auth login

name

string / required

Name of item to create or delete.

params

dictionary

Parameters to create/update item with.

Required if state is “present”.

Parameters as defined at https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/current/en/manual/api/reference/item/object

Additionally supported parameters are below

enabled

boolean

Status of the item.

Overrides “status” in API docs

Choices:

  • false

  • true

interval

string

Update interval of the item.

Alias for “delay” in API docs

key

string

Item key.

Alias for “key_” in API docs

master_item

dictionary

item that is the master of the current one

Overrides “master_itemid” in API docs

host_name

string

name of the host the master item belongs to

Required when template_name is not used.

Mutually exclusive with template_name.

item_name

string / required

name of the master item

template_name

string

name of the template the master item belongs to

Required when host_name is not used.

Mutually exclusive with host_name.

preprocessing

list / elements=dictionary

Item preprocessing options.

Parameters as defined at https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/current/en/manual/api/reference/item/object#item-preprocessing

Additionally supported parameters are below

error_handler

string

Action type used in case of preprocessing step failure.

Choices:

  • "zabbix_server"

  • "discard"

  • "set_custom_value"

  • "set_custom_error_message"

type

string / required

The preprocessing option type.

Choices:

  • "custom_multiplier"

  • "right_trim"

  • "left_trim"

  • "trim"

  • "regular_expressions"

  • "regex"

  • "boolean_to_decimal"

  • "octal_to_decimal"

  • "hexadecimal_to_decimal"

  • "simple_change"

  • "change_per_second"

  • "xml_xpath"

  • "jsonpath"

  • "in_range"

  • "matches_regular_expression"

  • "matches_regex"

  • "does_not_match_regular_expression"

  • "not_match_regex"

  • "check_for_error_in_json"

  • "check_for_json_error"

  • "check_for_error_in_xml"

  • "check_for_xml_error"

  • "check_for_error_using_regular_expression"

  • "check_for_error_regex"

  • "discard_unchanged"

  • "discard_unchanged_with_heartbeat"

  • "javascript"

  • "prometheus_pattern"

  • "prometheus_to_json"

  • "csv_to_json"

  • "replace"

  • "check_unsupported"

  • "xml_to_json"

  • "snmp_walk_value"

  • "snmp_walk_to_json"

status

string

Status of the item.

Choices:

  • "enabled"

  • "disabled"

type

string

Type of the item.

Required if state is “present”.

Choices:

  • "zabbix_agent"

  • "zabbix_trapper"

  • "simple_check"

  • "zabbix_internal"

  • "zabbix_agent_active"

  • "web_item"

  • "external_check"

  • "database_monitor"

  • "ipmi_agent"

  • "ssh_agent"

  • "telnet_agent"

  • "calculated"

  • "jmx_agent"

  • "snmp_trap"

  • "dependent_item"

  • "http_agent"

  • "snmp_agent"

  • "script"

value_type

string

Type of information of the item.

Required if state is “present”.

Choices:

  • "numeric_float"

  • "character"

  • "log"

  • "numeric_unsigned"

  • "text"

state

string

Create or delete item.

Choices:

  • "present" ← (default)

  • "absent"

template_name

string

Name of template to add item to.

Required when host_name is not used.

Mutually exclusive with host_name.

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

# Create ping item on example_host
- name: create ping item
  # 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_item:
    name: agent_ping
    host_name: example_host
    params:
        type: zabbix_agent
        key: agent.ping
        value_type: numeric_unsigned
        interval: 1m
    state: present

# Create ping item on example_template
- name: create ping item
  # 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_item:
    name: agent_ping
    template_name: example_template
    params:
        type: zabbix_agent
        key: agent.ping
        value_type: numeric_unsigned
        interval: 1m
    state: present

- name: Add tags to the existing Zabbix item
  # 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_item:
    name: agent_ping
    template_name: example_template
    params:
        type: zabbix_agent
        key: agent.ping
        value_type: numeric_unsigned
        interval: 1m
        tags:
          - tag: class
            value: application
    state: present

- name: create a dependent item
  # 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_item:
    name: depend_item
    host_name: example_host
    params:
        type: dependent_item
        key: vfs.fs.pused
        value_type: numeric_float
        units: '%'
        master_item:
          item_name: example_item
          host_name: example_host
        preprocessing:
          - type: jsonpath
            params: '$[?(@.fstype == "ext4")]'
            error_handler: zabbix_server
          - type: jsonpath
            params: "$[*].['bytes', 'inodes'].pused.max()"
            error_handler: zabbix_server
    state: present

- name: Delete Zabbix item
  # 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_item:
    name: agent_ping
    template_name: example_template
    state: absent

Authors

  • Andrew Lathrop (@aplathrop)