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mediatype.get
Description
integer/array mediatype.get(object parameters)
The method allows to retrieve media types according to the given parameters.
This method is only available to Admin and Super admin user types. Permissions to call the method can be revoked in user role settings. See User roles for more information.
Parameters
(object) Parameters defining the desired output.
The method supports the following parameters.
Since Zabbix 6.4.19, when requesting user-related information of media types, Admin type users may retrieve only data about their own user. For an example, see Retrieving media types as Admin.
| Parameter | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| mediatypeids | string/array | Return only media types with the given IDs. |
| mediaids | string/array | Return only media types used by the given media. |
| userids | string/array | Return only media types used by the given users. |
| selectMessageTemplates | query | Return a message_templates property with an array of media type messages. Parameter behavior: - supported for Super admin type users (since Zabbix 6.4.19) |
| selectUsers | query | Return a users property with the users that use the media type. |
| sortfield | string/array | Sort the result by the given properties. Possible values: mediatypeid. |
| filter | object | Return only those results that exactly match the given filter. Accepts an object, where the keys are property names, and the values are either a single value or an array of values to match against. Supported properties for Super admin type users: all Media type object properties, except properties of text data type.Supported properties for Admin type users (since Zabbix 6.4.19): mediatypeid, name, type, status, maxattempts. |
| output | query | Media type object properties to be returned. Since Zabbix 6.4.19, Admin type users may retrieve only the following Media type object properties: mediatypeid, name, type, status, maxattempts. For an example, see Retrieving media types as Admin.Default: extend. |
| search | object | Return results that match the given pattern (case-insensitive). Accepts an object, where the keys are property names, and the values are strings to search for. If no additional options are given, this will perform a LIKE "%…%" search.Supported properties for Super admin type users: all Media type object properties of string and text data type.Supported properties for Admin type users (since Zabbix 6.4.19): name, description. |
| countOutput | boolean | These parameters being common for all get methods are described in detail in the reference commentary. |
| editable | boolean | |
| excludeSearch | boolean | |
| limit | integer | |
| preservekeys | boolean | |
| searchByAny | boolean | |
| searchWildcardsEnabled | boolean | |
| sortorder | string/array | |
| startSearch | boolean |
Return values
(integer/array) Returns either:
- an array of objects;
- the count of retrieved objects, if the
countOutputparameter has been used.
Examples
Retrieving media types
Retrieve all configured media types. The following example returns two media types:
- email media type;
- SMS media type.
{
"jsonrpc": "2.0",
"method": "mediatype.get",
"params": {
"output": "extend",
"selectMessageTemplates": "extend"
},
"id": 1
}Response:
{
"jsonrpc": "2.0",
"result": [
{
"mediatypeid": "1",
"type": "0",
"name": "Email",
"smtp_server": "mail.example.com",
"smtp_helo": "example.com",
"smtp_email": "[email protected]",
"exec_path": "",
"gsm_modem": "",
"username": "",
"passwd": "",
"status": "0",
"smtp_port": "25",
"smtp_security": "0",
"smtp_verify_peer": "0",
"smtp_verify_host": "0",
"smtp_authentication": "0",
"maxsessions": "1",
"maxattempts": "3",
"attempt_interval": "10s",
"content_type": "0",
"script": "",
"timeout": "30s",
"process_tags": "0",
"show_event_menu": "1",
"event_menu_url": "",
"event_menu_name": "",
"description": "",
"message_templates": [
{
"eventsource": "0",
"recovery": "0",
"subject": "Problem: {EVENT.NAME}",
"message": "Problem started at {EVENT.TIME} on {EVENT.DATE}\r\nProblem name: {EVENT.NAME}\r\nHost: {HOST.NAME}\r\nSeverity: {EVENT.SEVERITY}\r\nOperational data: {EVENT.OPDATA}\r\nOriginal problem ID: {EVENT.ID}\r\n{TRIGGER.URL}"
},
{
"eventsource": "0",
"recovery": "1",
"subject": "Resolved: {EVENT.NAME}",
"message": "Problem has been resolved at {EVENT.RECOVERY.TIME} on {EVENT.RECOVERY.DATE}\r\nProblem name: {EVENT.NAME}\r\nHost: {HOST.NAME}\r\nSeverity: {EVENT.SEVERITY}\r\n\r\nOriginal problem ID: {EVENT.ID}\r\n{TRIGGER.URL}"
},
{
"eventsource": "0",
"recovery": "2",
"subject": "Updated problem: {EVENT.NAME}",
"message": "{USER.FULLNAME} {EVENT.UPDATE.ACTION} problem at {EVENT.UPDATE.DATE} {EVENT.UPDATE.TIME}.\r\n{EVENT.UPDATE.MESSAGE}\r\n\r\nCurrent problem status is {EVENT.STATUS}, acknowledged: {EVENT.ACK.STATUS}."
},
{
"eventsource": "1",
"recovery": "0",
"subject": "Discovery: {DISCOVERY.DEVICE.STATUS} {DISCOVERY.DEVICE.IPADDRESS}",
"message": "Discovery rule: {DISCOVERY.RULE.NAME}\r\n\r\nDevice IP: {DISCOVERY.DEVICE.IPADDRESS}\r\nDevice DNS: {DISCOVERY.DEVICE.DNS}\r\nDevice status: {DISCOVERY.DEVICE.STATUS}\r\nDevice uptime: {DISCOVERY.DEVICE.UPTIME}\r\n\r\nDevice service name: {DISCOVERY.SERVICE.NAME}\r\nDevice service port: {DISCOVERY.SERVICE.PORT}\r\nDevice service status: {DISCOVERY.SERVICE.STATUS}\r\nDevice service uptime: {DISCOVERY.SERVICE.UPTIME}"
},
{
"eventsource": "2",
"recovery": "0",
"subject": "Autoregistration: {HOST.HOST}",
"message": "Host name: {HOST.HOST}\r\nHost IP: {HOST.IP}\r\nAgent port: {HOST.PORT}"
}
],
"parameters": []
},
{
"mediatypeid": "3",
"type": "2",
"name": "SMS",
"smtp_server": "",
"smtp_helo": "",
"smtp_email": "",
"exec_path": "",
"gsm_modem": "/dev/ttyS0",
"username": "",
"passwd": "",
"status": "0",
"smtp_port": "25",
"smtp_security": "0",
"smtp_verify_peer": "0",
"smtp_verify_host": "0",
"smtp_authentication": "0",
"maxsessions": "1",
"maxattempts": "3",
"attempt_interval": "10s",
"content_type": "1",
"script": "",
"timeout": "30s",
"process_tags": "0",
"show_event_menu": "1",
"event_menu_url": "",
"event_menu_name": "",
"description": "",
"message_templates": [
{
"eventsource": "0",
"recovery": "0",
"subject": "",
"message": "{EVENT.SEVERITY}: {EVENT.NAME}\r\nHost: {HOST.NAME}\r\n{EVENT.DATE} {EVENT.TIME}"
},
{
"eventsource": "0",
"recovery": "1",
"subject": "",
"message": "RESOLVED: {EVENT.NAME}\r\nHost: {HOST.NAME}\r\n{EVENT.DATE} {EVENT.TIME}"
},
{
"eventsource": "0",
"recovery": "2",
"subject": "",
"message": "{USER.FULLNAME} {EVENT.UPDATE.ACTION} problem at {EVENT.UPDATE.DATE} {EVENT.UPDATE.TIME}"
},
{
"eventsource": "1",
"recovery": "0",
"subject": "",
"message": "Discovery: {DISCOVERY.DEVICE.STATUS} {DISCOVERY.DEVICE.IPADDRESS}"
},
{
"eventsource": "2",
"recovery": "0",
"subject": "",
"message": "Autoregistration: {HOST.HOST}\r\nHost IP: {HOST.IP}\r\nAgent port: {HOST.PORT}"
}
],
"parameters": []
}
],
"id": 1
}Retrieving media types as Admin
As an Admin type user, retrieve all media types that are enabled, with users that use these media types. The following example returns two media types:
- email media type with one user (since Zabbix 6.4.19, only Admin type user's own user);
- SMS media type with no users.
{
"jsonrpc": "2.0",
"method": "mediatype.get",
"params": {
"output": "extend",
"filter": {
"status": 0
},
"selectUsers": "extend"
},
"id": 1
}Response:
{
"jsonrpc": "2.0",
"result": [
{
"mediatypeid": "1",
"type": "0",
"name": "Email",
"status": "0",
"description": "",
"maxattempts": "3",
"users": [
{
"userid": "3",
"username": "database-admin",
"name": "John",
"surname": "Doe",
"url": "",
"autologin": "0",
"autologout": "0",
"lang": "default",
"refresh": "30s",
"theme": "default",
"attempt_failed": "0",
"attempt_ip": "",
"attempt_clock": "0",
"rows_per_page": "50",
"timezone": "default",
"roleid": "2",
"userdirectoryid": "0",
"ts_provisioned": "0"
}
]
},
{
"mediatypeid": "3",
"type": "2",
"name": "SMS",
"status": "0",
"description": "",
"maxattempts": "3",
"users": []
}
],
"id": 1
}Retrieve script and webhook media types
The following example returns three media types:
- script media type with parameters;
- script media type without parameters;
- webhook media type with parameters.
{
"jsonrpc": "2.0",
"method": "mediatype.get",
"params": {
"output": ["mediatypeid", "name", "parameters"],
"filter": {
"type": [1, 4]
}
},
"id": 1
}Response:
{
"jsonrpc": "2.0",
"result": [
{
"mediatypeid": "10",
"name": "Script with parameters",
"parameters": [
{
"sortorder": "0",
"value": "{ALERT.SENDTO}"
},
{
"sortorder": "1",
"value": "{EVENT.NAME}"
},
{
"sortorder": "2",
"value": "{ALERT.MESSAGE}"
},
{
"sortorder": "3",
"value": "Zabbix alert"
}
]
},
{
"mediatypeid": "13",
"name": "Script without parameters",
"parameters": []
},
{
"mediatypeid": "11",
"name": "Webhook",
"parameters": [
{
"name": "alert_message",
"value": "{ALERT.MESSAGE}"
},
{
"name": "event_update_message",
"value": "{EVENT.UPDATE.MESSAGE}"
},
{
"name": "host_name",
"value": "{HOST.NAME}"
},
{
"name": "trigger_description",
"value": "{TRIGGER.DESCRIPTION}"
},
{
"name": "trigger_id",
"value": "{TRIGGER.ID}"
},
{
"name": "alert_source",
"value": "Zabbix"
}
]
}
],
"id": 1
}See also
Source
CMediaType::get() in ui/include/classes/api/services/CMediaType.php.