[SOLVED]NXI 5.5.2 - Working with API and Ansible

[Aezox]

Hi everyone !

I'm working on a project to automatically deploy Nagios agent and declare new hosts to Nagios using Ansible.

For the declaration part I'm working with APIs using POST method (as defined in the "Help" part of Nagios XI)
I've found one blocking point that someone may have the answer.
When assigning hostgroups to my host I want to automatically set inherit option ("+" ticked in the Manage hostgroups) but I cannot handle myself.
I've try hardcoding "+" on the POST method but nothing works with.
Anyone has a clue please ?

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---
- name: Sending host configuration into Nagios without restarting
  uri:
    url: https://MyNagiosAddress/nagiosxi/api/v1/config/host?apikey=MyAPIKey&pretty=1
    body: 'host_name={{ ansible_hostname }}&alias={{ ansible_fqdn }}&address={{ ansible_default_ipv4.address }}&use={{ nagios_host_template.azure[ansible_local.vdc.location] }}&hostgroups={{ nagios_hostgroup.azure[ansible_local.vdc.location] }}&display_name={{ nagios_host_dp.azure.other }}&max_check_attempts=2&check_period={{ nagios_host_chk_period.azure[ansible_local.vdc.location] }}&contacts=contact_info&notification_interval=1440&notification_period={{ nagios_host_not_period.azure[ansible_local.vdc.location] }}&applyconfig=0'
    method: POST
    validate_certs: no
    timeout: 30

It's not a real blocking point but I would like to find a solution to it

Thank you for your help in avance !

[swolf]

Hi @Aezox,

How exactly did you try to encode the '+'? Following the object inheritance document ("Additive Inheritance of String Values"), you should be able to do what you describe by adding the '+' onto the front of the "hostgroups" specification. I'm not sure if this would work using the config/host endpoint, but it should work using config/import.

[Aezox]

Hi @swolf,

I did try to put '+' in both below ways :
set '+' after '=' -> &hostgroups=+{{ nagios_hostgroup.azure[ansible_local.vdc.location] }}
set '+' in my "nagios_hostgroup.azure" variable -> nagios_hostgroup.azure = +NameOfMyHostgroup

In both cases it didn't work as expect

[ssax]

Try using %2B (url encoded) instead of the +.

https://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/dencoder/

[Aezox]

Hi @ssax !

Try using %2B (url encoded) instead of the +.

https://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/dencoder/

It works ! Thank you !

[scottwilkerson]

Hi @ssax !

Try using %2B (url encoded) instead of the +.

https://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/dencoder/

It works ! Thank you !

Great!

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