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community.zabbix.zabbix_regexp_info module – Retrieve Zabbix regular expression

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_regexp_info.

New in community.zabbix 3.3.0

Synopsis

  • This module allows you to retrieve Zabbix regular expression.

Requirements

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

  • python >= 3.9

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

http_login_password

string

Basic Auth password

http_login_user

string

Basic Auth login

name

string / required

Name of this regular expression

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: Retrieve regexp of 'File systems for discovery'
  # 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_regexp_info:
    name: File systems for discovery

Return Values

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

Key

Description

regexp

dictionary

A Zabbix regular expression which is converted value to be used in community.zabbix.zabbix_regexp module.

Returned: success

expressions

list / elements=string

Expressions of the regular expression

Returned: success

Sample: [{"...": null, "case_sensitive": false, "expression_type": "result_is_true"}]

name

string

Name of the regular expression

Returned: success

Sample: "File systems for discovery"

test_string

string

Test string of the regular expression

Returned: success

Sample: "ext3"

Authors

  • ONODERA Masaru(@masa-orca)