Zabbix Metric Creation

zabbix.py

#! /usr/bin/env python

import zabbix_api

# Connect, auth
client = zabbix_api.ZabbixAPI('http://bigzabbix.seomoz.org')
client.login('your', 'credentials')
assert client.test_login(), 'Failed to log in'

# Try to find our Template
templates = client.template.get({
    'output': 'extend',
    'filter': {
        'name': 'Freshscape Queues'
    },
})
assert templates, 'Failed to find templates'

# Try to find our host
hosts = client.host.get({
    'output': 'extend',
    'filter': {
       'name': 'Testing'
    }
})
assert hosts, 'Failed to find hosts'
host = hosts[0]

# And now we'll try to add some metrics to it
template = templates[0]

def make_metrics(mappping):
    '''Take a mapping of key -> {
        'name': ...,
        'units': ...,
        'description': ...,
        ...
    '''
    for key, options in mapping.items():
        options.update({
            'key_': key,
            'type': '2',            # Trapper type
            'value_type': '0',      # Numerical float
            'hostid': template['templateid'],
            'interfaceid': 0
        })
        try:
            client.item.create(options)
        except:
            print '%s already exists' % key

# Describe some of our metrics
metrics = [{
    'name': 'foo.avg',
    'units': 'seconds',
    'description': 'Some metric'
}, {
    'name': 'bar.max',
    'units': 'jobs',
    'description': 'Some other metric'
}]

# Make our metrics now
make_metrics(metrics)