community.zabbix.zabbix_maintenance – Create Zabbix maintenance windows

Note

This plugin is part of the community.zabbix collection (version 1.5.0).

You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible package. It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.zabbix.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.zabbix.zabbix_maintenance.

Synopsis
Requirements
Parameters
Notes
Examples

Synopsis

This module will let you create Zabbix maintenance windows.

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

python >= 2.6
zabbix-api >= 0.5.4

Parameters

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Comments
collect_data boolean	Choices: no yes ←	Type of maintenance. With data collection, or without.
desc string	Default: "Created by Ansible"	Short description of maintenance window.
host_groups list / elements=string		Host groups to manage maintenance window for. Required option when state=present and host_names is not used. aliases: host_group
host_names list / elements=string		Hosts to manage maintenance window for. Required option when state=present and host_groups is not used. aliases: host_name
http_login_password string		Basic Auth password
http_login_user string		Basic Auth login
login_password string / required		Zabbix user password. If not set the environment variable `ZABBIX_PASSWORD` will be used.
login_user string / required		Zabbix user name. If not set the environment variable `ZABBIX_USERNAME` will be used.
minutes integer	Default: 10	Length of maintenance window in minutes.
name string / required		Unique name of maintenance window.
server_url string / required		URL of Zabbix server, with protocol (http or https). `url` is an alias for `server_url`. If not set the environment variable `ZABBIX_SERVER` will be used. aliases: url
state string	Choices: present ← absent	Create or remove a maintenance window. Maintenance window to remove is identified by name.
timeout integer	Default: 10	The timeout of API request (seconds).
validate_certs boolean	Choices: no yes ←	If set to False, SSL certificates will not be validated. This should only be used on personally controlled sites using self-signed certificates. If not set the environment variable `ZABBIX_VALIDATE_CERTS` will be used.
visible_name boolean added in 2.0.0 of community.zabbix	Choices: no yes ←	Type of zabbix host name to use for identifying hosts to include in the maintenance. visible_name=yes to search by visible name, visible_name=no to search by technical name.

Notes

Note

Useful for setting hosts in maintenance mode before big update, and removing maintenance window after update.
Module creates maintenance window from now() to now() + minutes, so if Zabbix server’s time and host’s time are not synchronized, you will get strange results.
Install required module with ‘pip install zabbix-api’ command.
If you use login_password=zabbix, the word “zabbix” is replaced by “****” in all module output, because login_password uses no_log. See this FAQ for more information.

Examples

- name: Create a named maintenance window for host www1 for 90 minutes
  community.zabbix.zabbix_maintenance:
    name: Update of www1
    host_name: www1.example.com
    state: present
    minutes: 90
    server_url: https://monitoring.example.com
    login_user: ansible
    login_password: pAsSwOrD

- name: Create a named maintenance window for host www1 and host groups Office and Dev
  community.zabbix.zabbix_maintenance:
    name: Update of www1
    host_name: www1.example.com
    host_groups:
      - Office
      - Dev
    state: present
    server_url: https://monitoring.example.com
    login_user: ansible
    login_password: pAsSwOrD

- name: Create a named maintenance window for hosts www1 and db1, without data collection.
  community.zabbix.zabbix_maintenance:
    name: update
    host_names:
      - www1.example.com
      - db1.example.com
    state: present
    collect_data: False
    server_url: https://monitoring.example.com
    login_user: ansible
    login_password: pAsSwOrD

- name: Remove maintenance window by name
  community.zabbix.zabbix_maintenance:
    name: Test1
    state: absent
    server_url: https://monitoring.example.com
    login_user: ansible
    login_password: pAsSwOrD

Authors

Alexander Bulimov (@abulimov)

© 2012–2018 Michael DeHaan
© 2018–2021 Red Hat, Inc.
Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/zabbix/zabbix_maintenance_module.html