Zabbix – Clear hosts from untemplated items

Sometimes you run into the problem, that you have a host which had a template attached but somebody wanted to replace the template or something like that and unfortunately hit just “Unlink” instead of “Unlink and Clear” and all the items are still in the host.

If you have only one host it’s normaly no problem to delete all items per hand, but if you have multiple of those hosts it’s quite some work do remove the old items.

Solution nr. one would be tu use the filters to select all items in a specified host group and delte those items, but the applications, discovery rules and so on will still remain in the hosts and have to be deleted in a 2nd/3rd step.

See the Screenshot below:Zabbix Host configuration - item filters

 

My preferred solution for this problem is a simple regex based find/replace with Notepad++.
Herefor an export of the affected hosts is needed. The xml-file could be opend with NPP and the following regexes are needed for find/replace (CTRL+H) to remove the unwanted items.

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In the above example multiple regexes with multiple replace-patterns are used to replace the items, discovery rules, triggers an inventory and reset it.

Remove Oracle ApEx from the database

Because Nessus seems to dislike Oracle ApEx we needed to remove it from the database.  Oracles manual regrading the removal is pretty straight forward (https://docs.oracle.com/database/121/HTMIG/trouble.htm#HTMIG270), but I wanted to do it in a single none intreactive line which makes it easier to do de removal automated.

so – here it is:

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Zabbix 1.8 to 2.2 Upgrade

Lately I was asked to help to upgrade Zabbix from 1.8 to 2.2 in a project. It wasn’t a problem to upgrade the templates – that was easily done with a xml-export/import but the hosts where kind of a challenge because the exported xml-files for the hosts itself pretty differs between 1.8 and 2.2.

Because i already had the PhpZabbixApi (https://github.com/confirm/PhpZabbixApi/blob/master/README.md) installed on the tared system i decided to write a little script which pareses the 1.8-host export and creates the hosts in 2.2. The script inc. the lib is attached at the end of the post.

I tested the script with Zabbix 1.8.6->2.2.10 and everything worked fine. Currently the script is capable of creating the hosts (with Zabbix-agent & SNMP-interface), creating the host groups and adding the hosts to the correct host group and also linking the correct templates to the host. However, the templates need to be already available on the target system to be linked correctly.

After extracting the script on the target Zabbix server the xml-import from the old system needs to be uploaded into the same directory as the script (scp) and the login data for Zabbix need to be adapted in the script. Afterwards the import can be started from a bash via:

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Zabbix1.8_2.2_upgrade