community.zabbix.zabbix_housekeeping module – Update Zabbix housekeeping

Note

This module is part of the community.zabbix collection (version 3.1.2).

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_housekeeping.

New in community.zabbix 1.6.0

Synopsis

  • This module allows you to modify Zabbix housekeeping setting.

Requirements

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

  • python >= 3.9

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

compress_older

string

Compress history and trends records older than this period if compression_status=true.

compression_status

boolean

TimescaleDB compression for history and trends will be enabled if true.

Choices:

  • false

  • true

hk_audit

string

Storage period of audit data (e.g. 365d).

hk_audit_mode

boolean

Internal housekeeping for audit will be enabled if true.

Choices:

  • false

  • true

hk_events_autoreg

string

Storage period of autoregistration data (e.g. 365d).

hk_events_discovery

string

Storage period of network discovery (e.g. 365d).

hk_events_internal

string

Storage period of internal data (e.g. 365d).

hk_events_mode

boolean

Internal housekeeping for events and alerts will be enabled if true.

Choices:

  • false

  • true

hk_events_service

string

Storage period of service data (e.g. 365d).

hk_events_trigger

string

Storage period of trigger data (e.g. 365d).

hk_history

string

Storage priod of history data (e.g. 365d).

hk_history_global

boolean

Overriding history period of each items will be enabled if true.

Choices:

  • false

  • true

hk_history_mode

boolean

Internal housekeeping for history will be enabled if true.

Choices:

  • false

  • true

hk_services

string

Storage period of services data (e.g. 365d).

hk_services_mode

boolean

Internal housekeeping for services will be enabled if true.

Choices:

  • false

  • true

hk_sessions

string

Storage period of sessions data (e.g. 365d).

hk_sessions_mode

boolean

Internal housekeeping for sessions will be enabled if true.

Choices:

  • false

  • true

string

Storage priod of trends data (e.g. 365d).

boolean

Overriding trend period of each items will be enabled if true.

Choices:

  • false

  • true

boolean

Internal housekeeping for trends will be enabled if true.

Choices:

  • false

  • true

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: Update housekeeping all parameter
  # 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_housekeeping:
    login_user: Admin
    login_password: secret
    hk_events_mode: yes
    hk_events_trigger: 365d
    hk_events_service: 365d
    hk_events_internal: 365d
    hk_events_discovery: 365d
    hk_events_autoreg: 365d
    hk_services_mode: yes
    hk_services: 365d
    hk_audit_mode: yes
    hk_audit: 365d
    hk_sessions_mode: yes
    hk_sessions: 365d
    hk_history_mode: yes
    hk_history_global: yes
    hk_history: 365d
    hk_trends_mode: yes
    hk_trends_global: yes
    hk_trends: 365d
    compression_status: off
    compress_older: 7d

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 update housekeeping setting"

Authors

  • ONODERA Masaru(@masa-orca)