Nagios XI API Add/Remove Hosts in Hostgroups

[chilyard]

I can add/remove hosts in Nagios XI via the API, but it appears I cannot modify the hostgroup to include that host nor can I include a hostgroup during creation of the host itself.

I'm looking to do this all through the API, if possible.

I searched and found a relevant thread from a year ago, sounds like it wasn't possible in 2015...hoping for better news.

Thanks!

[lmiltchev]

Modifying a hostgroup via the REST API would mean "recreating" this hostgroup from scratch. It should be quite easy to do so. Let's say you have a hostgroup named "HG" with 3 members - "Host1", "Host2", and "Host3".

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define hostgroup {
	hostgroup_name                		HG
	alias                         		MyHostGroup
	members                       		Host1,Host2,Host3
	}

Now, you need to add one more member - "Host4". You could run something like this from the command line:

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curl -XPOST "http://x.x.x.x/nagiosxi/api/v1/config/hostgroup?apikey=xxxx=1" -d "hostgroup_name=HG&alias=MyHostGroup&members=Host1,Host2,Host3,Host4&force=1&applyconfig=1"

To include a hostgroup during a host creation, you could run something like this:

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curl -XPOST "http://x.x.x.x/nagiosxi/api/v1/config/host?apikey=xxxx=1" -d "host_name=Host5&address=x.x.x.x&check_command=check_ping\!3000,80%\!5000,100%&max_check_attempts=2&check_period=24x7&contacts=nagiosadmin&notification_interval=5&notification_period=24x7&hostgroups=HG&force=1&applyconfig=1"

[chilyard]

Thanks for the quick response. Not elegant as I'd like, but totally doable.


Grazie.

[lmiltchev]

I am glad I could help!