Starting with the Zabbix API
The approaches we looked at earlier—direct database edits and XML import/export—were either risky or limited. Editing the database is risky because there is very little validation, and upgrading to a newer version of Zabbix can change the database schema, making our tools and approaches invalid. XML import/export was nice, but very limited—it did not allow modifying users, network discovery rules, actions lots, and lots of things in the Zabbix configuration.
This is where the Zabbix API could help. It is a JSON-based interface to Zabbix configuration and data. It offers way more functionality than XML import/export does, although there are still bits and pieces of configuration that cannot be controlled using it.
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