27 Top triggers

Description

These parameters and the possible property values for the respective dashboard widget field objects allow to configure the Top triggers widget in dashboard.create and dashboard.update methods.

Widget fields properties are not validated during the creation or update of a dashboard. This allows users to modify built-in widgets and create custom widgets, but also introduces the risk of creating or updating widgets incorrectly. To ensure the successful creation or update of the Top triggers widget, please refer to the parameter behavior outlined in the tables below.

Parameters

The following parameters are supported for the Top triggers widget.

Parameter type name value
Refresh interval 0 rf_rate 0 - (default) No refresh;
10 - 10 seconds;
30 - 30 seconds;
60 - 1 minute;
120 - 2 minutes;
600 - 10 minutes;
900 - 15 minutes.
Host groups 2 groupids.0 Host group ID.

Note: To configure multiple host groups, create a dashboard widget field object for each host group with an incremented number in the property name.

This parameter is not supported if configuring the widget on a template dashboard.
Hosts 3 hostids.0 Host ID.

Note: To configure multiple hosts, create a dashboard widget field object for each host with an incremented number in the property name. For multiple hosts, the parameter Host groups must either be not configured at all or configured with at least one host group that the configured hosts belong to.

This parameter is not supported if configuring the widget on a template dashboard.
Problem 1 problem Problem event name (case insensitive, full name or part of it).
Severity 0 severities.0 Trigger severities.

0 - Not classified;
1 - Information;
2 - Warning;
3 - Average;
4 - High;
5 - Disaster.

Default: empty (all enabled).

Note: To configure multiple values, create a dashboard widget field object for each value with an incremented number in the property name.
Problem tags
Evaluation type 0 evaltype 0 - (default) And/Or;
2 - Or.
Tag name 1 tags.0.tag Any string value.

Note: The number in the property name references tag order in the tag evaluation list.

Parameter behavior:
- required if configuring Problem tags
Operator 0 tags.0.operator 0 - Contains;
1 - Equals;
2 - Does not contain;
3 - Does not equal;
4 - Exists;
5 - Does not exist.

Note: The number in the property name references tag order in the tag evaluation list.

Parameter behavior:
- required if configuring Problem tags
Tag value 1 tags.0.value Any string value.

Note: The number in the property name references tag order in the tag evaluation list.

Parameter behavior:
- required if configuring Problem tags
Time period 1 time_period._reference DASHBOARD._timeperiod - set the Time period selector as the data source;
ABCDE._timeperiod - set a compatible widget (with its Reference parameter set to "ABCDE") as the data source.

Default: DASHBOARD._timeperiod

Alternatively, you can set the time period only in the From and To parameters.
From 1 time_period.from Valid time string in absolute (YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss) or relative time syntax (now, now/d, now/w-1w, etc.).

Parameter behavior:
- supported if Time period is not set
To 1 time_period.to Valid time string in absolute (YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss) or relative time syntax (now, now/d, now/w-1w, etc.).

Parameter behavior:
- supported if Time period is not set
Trigger limit 0 show_lines Possible values range from 1-100.

Default: 10.

Examples

The following examples aim to only describe the configuration of the dashboard widget field objects for the Top triggers widget. For more information on configuring a dashboard, see dashboard.create.

Configuring a Top triggers widget

Configure a Top triggers widget that displays the top 5 triggers for host group "4" with the count of all problems for each trigger. The widget displays only triggers that have severities "Warning", "Average", "High", or "Disaster", and problems that have a tag with the name "scope" that contains values "performance" or "availability", or "capacity".

Request:

{
           "jsonrpc": "2.0",
           "method": "dashboard.create",
           "params": {
               "name": "My dashboard",
               "display_period": 30,
               "auto_start": 1,
               "pages": [
                   {
                       "widgets": [
                           {
                               "type": "toptriggers",
                               "name": "Top triggers",
                               "x": 0,
                               "y": 0,
                               "width": 36,
                               "height": 5,
                               "view_mode": 0,
                               "fields": [
                                   {
                                       "type": 2,
                                       "name": "groupids.0",
                                       "value": 4
                                   },
                                   {
                                       "type": 0,
                                       "name": "severities.0",
                                       "value": 2
                                   },
                                   {
                                       "type": 0,
                                       "name": "severities.1",
                                       "value": 3
                                   },
                                   {
                                       "type": 0,
                                       "name": "severities.2",
                                       "value": 4
                                   },
                                   {
                                       "type": 0,
                                       "name": "severities.3",
                                       "value": 5
                                   },
                                   {
                                       "type": 1,
                                       "name": "tags.0.tag",
                                       "value": "scope"
                                   },
                                   {
                                       "type": 0,
                                       "name": "tags.0.operator",
                                       "value": 0
                                   },
                                   {
                                       "type": 1,
                                       "name": "tags.0.value",
                                       "value": "performance"
                                   },
                                   {
                                       "type": 1,
                                       "name": "tags.1.tag",
                                       "value": "scope"
                                   },
                                   {
                                       "type": 0,
                                       "name": "tags.1.operator",
                                       "value": 0
                                   },
                                   {
                                       "type": 1,
                                       "name": "tags.1.value",
                                       "value": "availability"
                                   },
                                   {
                                       "type": 1,
                                       "name": "tags.2.tag",
                                       "value": "scope"
                                   },
                                   {
                                       "type": 0,
                                       "name": "tags.2.operator",
                                       "value": 0
                                   },
                                   {
                                       "type": 1,
                                       "name": "tags.2.value",
                                       "value": "capacity"
                                   },
                                   {
                                       "type": 0,
                                       "name": "show_lines",
                                       "value": 5
                                   }
                               ]
                           }
                       ]
                   }
               ],
               "userGroups": [
                   {
                       "usrgrpid": 7,
                       "permission": 2
                   }
               ],
               "users": [
                   {
                       "userid": 1,
                       "permission": 3
                   }
               ]
           },
           "id": 1
       }

Response:

{
           "jsonrpc": "2.0",
           "result": {
               "dashboardids": [
                   "3"
               ]
           },
           "id": 1
       }

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