usermacro.create

Description

object usermacro.create(object/array **hostMacros**)

This method allows to create new host macros.

Parameters

(object/array) Host macros to create.

The method accepts host macros with the standard host macro properties.

Return values

(object) Returns an object containing the IDs of the created host macros under the hostmacroids property. The order of the returned IDs matches the order of the passed host macros.

Examples

Creating a host macro

Create a host macro “{$SNMP_COMMUNITY}” with the value “public” on host “10198”.

Request:

{
    "jsonrpc": "2.0",
    "method": "usermacro.create",
    "params": {
        "hostid": "10198",
        "macro": "{$SNMP_COMMUNITY}",
        "value": "public"
    },
    "auth": "038e1d7b1735c6a5436ee9eae095879e",
    "id": 1
}

Response:

{
    "jsonrpc": "2.0",
    "result": {
        "hostmacroids": [
            "11"
        ]
    },
    "id": 1
}

Source

CUserMacro::create() in ui/include/classes/api/services/CUserMacro.php.