Config - Hosts

Object type: host

Request URL: /rest/config/host

Example GET response Copied

    {
       "object" : {
          "snmpv3_privprotocol" : null,
          "flap_detection_enabled" : "1",
          "hosttemplates" : [
             {
                "ref" : "/rest/config/hosttemplate/4",
                "name" : "Blank"
             }
          ],
          "keywords" : [],
          "check_period" : {
             "ref" : "/rest/config/timeperiod/3",
             "name" : "nonworkhours"
          },
          "hostattributes" : [
             {
                "arg1" : null,
                "arg2" : null,
                "arg3" : null,
                "arg4" : null,
                "value" : "/remote",
                "name" : "DISK"
             },
             {
                "arg1" : null,
                "arg2" : null,
                "arg3" : null,
                "arg4" : null,
                "value" : "opsviewd",
                "name" : "PROCESS"
             }
          ],
          "id" : "22",
          "notification_period" : {
             "ref" : "/rest/config/timeperiod/1",
             "name" : "24x7"
          },
          "notification_options" : "d,r",
          "name" : "monitored_by_cluster",
          "rancid_vendor" : null,
          "hostgroup" : {
             "ref" : "/rest/config/hostgroup/5",
             "name" : "Leaf2"
          },
          "enable_snmp" : "1",
          "event_handler" : "",
          "monitored_by" : {
             "ref" : "/rest/config/monitoringcluster/3",
             "name" : "Cluster"
          },
          "alias" : "Host to be monitored by collector",
          "uncommitted" : "1",
          "parents" : [],
          "retry_check_interval" : "4",
          "icon" : {
             "name" : "SYMBOL - Wireless network",
             "path" : "/images/logos/wireless_small.png"
          },
          "ip" : "monitored_by_clusterip",
          "use_mrtg" : "0",
          "servicechecks" : [
             {
                "ref" : "/rest/config/servicecheck/45",
                "name" : "Check Loadavg",
                "exception":"-w 5,5,5 -c 9,9,9",
                "timed_exception":null,
                "event_handler":null,
                "remove_servicecheck":0,
             },
             {
                "ref" : "/rest/config/servicecheck/4",
                "name" : "DNS",
                "exception":"--other --args",
                "timed_exception":null,
                "event_handler":null,
                "remove_servicecheck":1,
             },
             {
                "ref" : "/rest/config/servicecheck/6",
                "name" : "HTTP",
                "timed_exception":{
                    "timeperiod" : { "name" : "workhours" },
                    "args" : "--url=../../../about -w 2 -c 4",
                },
                "exception":null,
                "remove_servicecheck":0,
                "event_hander":"restart_http",
          ],
          "use_rancid" : "0",
          "nmis_node_type" : "server",
          "snmp_version" : "2c",
          "use_nmis" : "1",
          "rancid_connection_type" : "ssh",
          "snmpv3_authprotocol" : null,
          "rancid_username" : null,
          "rancid_password" : null,
          "check_command" : {
             "ref" : "/rest/config/hostcheckcommand/7",
             "name" : "NRPE (on port 5666)"
          },
          "check_attempts" : "15",
          "check_interval" : "25",
          "notification_interval" : "60",
          "snmpv3_privpassword" : "",
          "snmpv3_username" : "",
          "other_addresses" : "",
          "business_components" : []
       }
    }

Example Copied

To create a new host called newhost where the name can be looked up in DNS.

Note

This server will not be seen after an ‘apply changes’ as no servicechecks have been applied.
$ opsview_rest --username=admin --password=initial --pretty --data-format=json POST 'config/host' --data '{"name":"newhost"}'
{
   "object" : {
      "alias" : "",
      "business_components" : [],
      "check_attempts" : "2",
      "check_command" : null,
      "check_interval" : "300",
      "check_period" : {
         "name" : "24x7",
         "ref" : "/rest/config/timeperiod/1"
      },
      "enable_snmp" : "0",
      "event_handler" : "",
      "event_handler_always_exec" : "0",
      "flap_detection_enabled" : "1",
      "hostattributes" : [],
      "hostgroup" : {
         "name" : "Build System",
         "ref" : "/rest/config/hostgroup/5"
      },
      "hosttemplates" : [],
      "icon" : {
         "name" : "LOGO - Opsview",
         "path" : "/static/images/logos/opsview.png"
      },
      "id" : "38",
      "ip" : "newhost",
      "keywords" : [],
      "last_updated" : "1606481281",
      "monitored_by" : {
         "name" : "Master Monitoring Server",
         "ref" : "/rest/config/monitoringcluster/1"
      },
      "name" : "newhost",
      "notification_options" : null,
      "notification_period" : {
         "name" : "24x7",
         "ref" : "/rest/config/timeperiod/1"
      },
      "other_addresses" : "",
      "parents" : [],
      "rancid_autoenable" : "0",
      "rancid_connection_type" : "ssh",
      "rancid_username" : null,
      "rancid_vendor" : null,
      "retry_check_interval" : "60",
      "servicechecks" : [],
      "snmp_extended_throughput_data" : "0",
      "snmp_max_msg_size" : "0",
      "snmp_port" : "161",
      "snmp_use_getnext" : "0",
      "snmp_use_ifname" : "0",
      "snmp_version" : "2c",
      "snmpv3_authprotocol" : null,
      "snmpv3_privprotocol" : null,
      "snmpv3_username" : "",
      "tidy_ifdescr_level" : "0",
      "uncommitted" : "1",
      "use_rancid" : "0"
   }
}

Example PUT Copied

To update the above host and replace the Hosttemplates list:

$ opsview_rest --username=admin --password=initial --pretty --data-format=json PUT 'config/host' --data '{"name":"newhost", "hosttemplates": [ { "name":"Network - Base" } ] }'
{
   "object" : {
...
      "hosttemplates" : [
         {
            "name" : "Network - Base",
            "ref" : "/rest/config/hosttemplate/194"
         }
      ],
...
   }
}

Optional parameters:

There are additional options for filtering by related objects:

When modifying a host, the encrypted SNMP community, and encrypted SNMPv3 authentication and privacy passwords can be set by passing encrypted_snmp_community, encrypted_snmpv3_authpassword, and encrypted_snmpv3_privpassword, respectively. If snmp_community, snmpv3_authprotocol, and/or snmpv3_privpassword are passed, then those elements will be set to those new values, encrypted.

Optional columns:

Warning

If you change the list of servicechecks and do not specify the exception/timed_exception/remove_servicecheck parameters, this will default to undef, undef and 0 respectively.

Take note of the following considerations:

SNMP interfaces Copied

As mentioned above, the snmpinterfaces for all hosts, or any individual hosts, can be requested by adding it into the cols list:

/rest/config/host?rows=all&cols=%2Bsnmpinterfaces
/rest/config/host?s.name=myhost01&cols=%2Bsnmpinterfaces

Note

The %2B used here is the URL encoded value for + which some clients need.

This will include extra information in the output:

$ opsview_rest --username=admin --password=initial --pretty --data-format=json GET 'config/host?s.name=SNMP_v2&cols=%2Bsnmpinterfaces'
{
   "list" : [
      {
....
         "enable_snmp" : "1",
....
         "name" : "SNMP_v2",
....
         "snmp_extended_throughput_data" : "0",
         "snmp_max_msg_size" : "0",
         "snmp_port" : "161",
         "snmp_use_getnext" : "0",
         "snmp_use_ifname" : "0",
         "snmp_version" : "2c",
         "snmpinterfaces" : [
            {
               "active" : "0",
               "discards_critical" : "15",
               "discards_warning" : null,
               "duplicatename" : "0",
               "errors_critical" : "10",
               "errors_warning" : null,
               "indexid" : "0",
               "interfacename" : "",
               "throughput_critical" : "50%",
               "throughput_warning" : null
            },
            {
               "active" : "0",
               "discards_critical" : "",
               "discards_warning" : "",
               "duplicatename" : "0",
               "errors_critical" : "",
               "errors_warning" : "",
               "indexid" : "0",
               "interfacename" : "eth0",
               "throughput_critical" : "",
               "throughput_warning" : ""
            },
         ],
         "snmpv3_authprotocol" : null,
         "snmpv3_privprotocol" : null,
         "snmpv3_username" : "",
         "tidy_ifdescr_level" : "0",
         "uncommitted" : "0",
         "use_rancid" : "0"
      }
   ],
....
}

The first entry (with active=0 and no interfacename) is the default monitoring settings used for all interfaces on this host (the standard settings are shown above). This row MUST be included when submitting the list of interfaces back to the server.

For the interface to be monitored, active must be set to 1.

Instead of manually building up the entries, you can request a Query Host scan to fetch the information from the device using the SNMP settings configured for the host which you can then POST back using this endpoint. See the Query Host API section for more details.

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