Zabbix 4 Network Monitoring - Third Edition

Logging in

Before we can perform any useful operations through the API, we must log in. Our JSON string would be as follows:

$ json='{"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"user.login","id":2,"params":{"user":"Admin","password":"zabbix"}}'  

Now, run the curl command to get the API version. In all further API requests, we'll only change the json variable and then reuse the same curl command:

$ curl -s -w '\n' -X POST -H 'Content-Type: application/json-rpc' -d "$json" http://localhost/zabbix/api_jsonrpc.php

In this case, assuming a correct username and password, it should return the following:

{"jsonrpc":"2.0","result":"df83119ab78bbeb2065049412309f9b4","id":2} 

We use the request ID 2. That wasn't really required—we could've used 3, 5, or 1013. We could've ...