Lark IT Ansible Zabbix API Template Role

Manipualtes Zabbix templates via the Zabbix API

Zabbix Versions

• Zabbix 4.2

Dependencies

• This role has no dependencies on other roles

Variables

Variable	Required?	Default Value	Type	Description
zabbix_server_url	Yes	N/A	String	The URL where the Zabbix web service is listening
zabbix_login_user	Yes	N/A	String	The username Ansible uses to authenticate to Zabbix
zabbix_login_password	Yes	N/A	String	The password Ansible users to authenitcate to Zabbix
zabbix_template_name	Yes	N/A	String	The name of the Zabbix template to create or dump
zabbix_template_state	No	present	string	The desired state of the Zabbix template. Set to present to create, and dump to dump the template to a file
zabbix_template_template	Yes, when state is create	N/A	String	The name of the template file to reder and import into Zabbix to create the template
zabbix_template_trigger_dependencies	No	[]	List	A list of Zabbix trigger expressions that trigger(s) in this template should depend on. See the template files for specifics.

Notes

• ansible_connection should be set to local for this role.
• When zabbix_template_state set to dump, the resulting json file will be dumped in the playbook's working directory

Example create

- name: Create Zabbix Template 
  include_role: 
    name: zabbix-api-template
  vars: 
      zabbix_server_url: https://zabbix.example.com
      zabbix_login_user: user
      zabbix_login_password: pass
      zabbix_template_name: Template Module ICMP Ping Branch GW
      zabbix_template_template: zabbix-template-icmp.json.j2
      zabbix_template_trigger_dependencies: [{"name": "{HOST.NAME} unavailable by ICMP ping",
                                              "expression": "{main-gw:icmpping.max(#3)}=0",
                                              "recovery_expression": ""}]

Example dump

- role: zabbix-api-template
  vars: 
    zabbix_server_url: https://zabbix.example.com
    zabbix_login_user: user
    zabbix_login_password: pass
    zabbix_template_state: dump
    zabbix_template_name: Template