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Regex on Zabbix API?

After some hours spent reading Zabbix Api's documentation, I haven't found a way of doing a search by key with more than one possible value.

So, with this code:

{
"jsonrpc": "2.0",
"method": "item.get",
"params": {
    "output": "extend",
    "hostids": " 10355",
    "search": {
        "key_": "[in_*|out_*]"
     },

"sortfield": "name"
},
"auth": "15729708df1f5936f6ea840ae1b41cb6",
"id": 0
}

I'm trying to get every item which key is in_<anything> OR out_<anything> so, the output would be the combination of all the items related to the interfaces. Instead, I get this:

{"jsonrpc":"2.0","result":[],"id":0}

I know that there's the possibility to use filter instead of search but, from what I read, it is used when you want exact match, which is not the case.

Solution

  • Zabbix API (and filtering in other places) does not support regexp. In some versions you could pass wildcards, but that won't solve your current issue. You will have to do two separate API queries.

    To answer the question in the comment here, search can be negated with the excludeSearch parameter - see the API documentation for more detail.