Zabbix 4 Network Monitoring - Third Edition

Obtaining the API version

One of the simplest ways to obtain the API version in Zabbix is probably by Zabbix itself making use of the HTTP agent item and some JSON preprocessing. For this, we'll create a new item. It doesn't really matter on what host—let's do it on A test host. Go to Configuration | Hosts and create a new item on our A test host host with the following parameters:

• Name: Check Zabbix API Version
• Type: HTTP agent
• Key: check_zabbix_api_version
• URL: http://<zabbix-server-ip>/zabbix/api_jsonrpc.php
• Request type: POST
• Request body type: JSON data
• Request body: This field is filled with the following value:

 { "jsonrpc": "2.0", "method": "apiinfo.version", "params": [], "id": 1 }

• Retrieve mode: Body
• Type of information: Character ...