Web-API : can we make a bulk discovery with the APi on a folder?

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Hello all ,

I am wondering if it is possible to perform a bulk discovery on folder via the check_mk api

We have have the functionnality actually https://checkmk.com/cms_web_api_references.html#discover_services but it is just for single host which doesn’t fit my needs ,.

I don’t want to call the get_all_host api first then make loop inside it to discover one by one the services on each host.

Kr ,

Andry

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You can try to use get_host or get_all_hosts function with params = { folder = “your_folder” } (haven’t tried yet) and run kind of a loop foreach found host and run discover_services function with each hostname found.

Give it a try :slight_smile:

Hope it helps.

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Thanks for the reply but I want to avoid the loop
Because in Wato we have this bulk discovery feature but not in the API

Kr,

Andry

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As far as my (low) dev skills can go, and looking at the webapi code regarding the action_discover_services it can only do to a single host - at least in version 1.5.0p19.

EDIT : 1.6 also with “the same code/behavior” :slight_smile:

EDIT #2 : Sorry, 1.6 has the hability you need.

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Hello ,

I am using the 1.6.0.p8 but I didn’t see the feature at least on the API documentation
Would you send me a link ?

Kr ,
Andry

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I didn’t found any documentantion regarding that just the .py in the share folder of 1.6.0p6 (file bulk_discovery.py)

Cheers

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At the moment, the bulk operators are missing inside the API documentation.
Inside the bulk_discovery.py file mentioned from @ricardoftribeiro you find the two possible requests.
bulk_discovery_start and bulk_discovery_status described with the parameters

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Hello Andreas ,

Thanks for the reply , I know to use them knw

it is webapi.py?action=bulk_discovery_start

with body the lists of hostnames ( ex : request:{“hostnames”:[“nono”]})

kr ,

Andry

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