problem creating host interface using create_host_interface

[techie879]

Hi,

I am having trouble creating SNMP host interface using the following, and could use some hints from you.

some quick background info -- SNMP interface IP is different then the host IP in my case.

My txt file is:

create_host_interface hpc3-14-03 1 "" "" 10.240.62.16 "" 0

here is the error i get:

020-07-01 08:57:26,101 [zabbix_cli.cli][None][263865][ERROR]: Problems creating host interface on hpc3-14-03- (u"Error -32602: Invalid params.: Incorrect arguments passed to function. while sending {u'params': {'hostid': '10336', 'ip': '10.240.62.16', 'useip': 1, 'dns': '', 'main': 0, 'type': 2, 'port': '161'}, u'jsonrpc': u'2.0', u'method': u'hostinterface.create', u'auth': u'xxx', u'id': 8}", -32602)
[root@hpc3-xcat-1 ~]# cat create_interface.txt

I am not sure which incorrect argument is passed here.

thanks

[paalbra]

What python version is this?

What version of Zabbix?

What kind of host is this? A regular host? Does it have any other SNMP interfaces already?

[paalbra]

PS. You probably don't want to post your auth key by the way

[paalbra]

And what Zabbix-cli version or commit is this?

[techie879]

Hi,

Python version is 2.7.15 . For zabbix-cli version I am using 2.2.1 . I checked out tag 2.2.1 and installed it. I am running zabbix 5 LTS.

it is a HP apollo server. currently it does not have any SNMP interface setup. Attached a snippet from zabbix GUI.

[paalbra]

Looks like they've change the API between 4.0 and 5.0. We've only tested zabbix-cli with 4.0.

https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/4.0/manual/api/reference/hostinterface/object#host_interface
vs
https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/5.0/manual/api/reference/hostinterface/object#host_interface

The details param/field is required when creating SNMP interfaces. I haven't been able to confirm it, but I guess that this is the issue.

[techie879]

aah, OK. thanks for letting me know. Would there be a fix in the future?

[paalbra]

Yes, supporting the new LTS is something we'll need to do. I don't think this is much work, but we're a bit low on resources right now. I can't guarantee anything :/

[paalbra]

@techie879 This is only a small hotfix, but could you try with this? https://github.com/unioslo/zabbix-cli/commits/fix-128

This simple commit might resolve your issue, but I'm not sure 7ad6c2c

Sadly they haven't updated their appliance-container that I use for testing. They don't have a proper 5.0 LTS image yet. https://hub.docker.com/r/zabbix/zabbix-appliance

[techie879]

I cloned the master, checked out the tag , installed again. It does not look like it did anything. Still get the same error(unless I am doing this wrong). See below. here is the config file: create_host_interface "hpc3-14-03" "0" "SNMP" "161" "10.240.62.16" "hpc3-14-03-ipmi" "0" in my config file(above), I was not sure about what the help menu meant by: [interface DNS] -------------- DNS if interface connection is 0: (hostname by default) So, I added the DNS name for the iLO. Not sure if I did it correctly. here is the log file : 2020-07-04 17:49:16,966 [zabbix_cli.cli][None][62211][ERROR]: Problems creating host interface on hpc3-14-03- (u"Error -32602: Invalid params.: Incorrect arguments passed to function. while sending {u'params': {'hostid': '10336', 'ip': '', 'useip': 0, 'details': [], 'dns': 'hpc3-14-03-ipmi', 'main': 0, 'type': 2, 'port': '161'}, u'jsonrpc': u'2.0', u'method': u'hostinterface.create', u'auth': u'xyxyxyxyxyxyxyxyx', u'id': 9}", -32602) thanks

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[paalbra]

They've apparently made some major changes to SNMP https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/current/manual/api/changes_4.4_-_5.0

Also: Their documentation contains errors: https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/5.0/manual/api/reference/hostinterface/object

details is not an array. And it looks like they've improperly labeled required/not required fields.

This is a valid request:

curl -H 'Content-Type: application/json' --data '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"hostinterface.create","params":{"hostid":"1","dns":"","ip":"127.0.0.1","main":0,"port":"10050","type":2,"useip":1,"details":{"version":2,"community":"public"}},"auth":"xxx","id":1}' 'http://localhost/zabbix/api_jsonrpc.php'.

There's no simple quickfix for this. The command will probably need to take more parameters as input :/

[stemsin]

If anyone has faced the same, as a dirty fix you can use the below: in "./zabbix_cli/cli.py"

3165         query = {
3166             "hostid": hostid,
3167             "type": int(interface_type),
3168             "main": int(interface_main),
3169             "useip": int(interface_useip),
3170             "port": str(interface_port),
>>3171             "details": {"version":2,"community":"public"}
3172         }