Learn Python because of Zabbix API, examples, pyzabbix

Install python pip on CentOS 7:

cd && curl "https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py" -o "get-pip.py" && python get-pip.py
yum install -y epel-release && yum -y install python-pip

Install python pip on debian:

apt -y install python-pip

Install python pip on RHEL:

yum -y install python-pip

Install pyzabbix module:

pip install pyzabbix
pip install config

Note down user 'zabbix' home dir:

grep zabbix /etc/passwd
# it should report '/var/lib/zabbix'

If directory not exist then create it:

mkdir -p /var/lib/zabbix

Set the credentials for pyzabbix if front-end is located on http://localhost/zabbix

cat << 'EOF' > /var/lib/zabbix/config.py
url = "http://127.0.0.1/zabbix"
username = "Admin"
password = "zabbix"
EOF

or if Zabbix server is directly on http://localhost/

cat << 'EOF' > /var/lib/zabbix/config.py
url = "http://127.0.0.1/"
username = "Admin"
password = "zabbix"
EOF

Set the right owner for config:

chown zabbix. /var/lib/zabbix/config.py

Find where the externalscripts directory is located:

find / -name externalscripts

Move to externalscripts directory:

cd $(find / -name externalscripts | head -1)

Sample snippets