Acknowledge host problem through Icinga 2 API using Python

acknowledge-host-problem.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

import requests, json

# change localhost to your Icinga 2 API
url = 'https://localhost:5665/v1/actions/acknowledge-problem?type=Host&host='

header = {
    'Accept': 'application/json'
}

# adjust author and comment to your needs
data = {
    'author': 'icingaadmin',
    'comment': 'Global outage. Working on it.'
}

# Change hostname to the affected host
hostname = 'myhostobject'

url += hostname

print url

# verify=False is lazy; better is to check the actual certificate
# an example can be found here https://icinga.com/docs/icinga2/latest/doc/12-icinga2-api/#example-api-client-in-python
# change auth=('icinga', 'icinga') to your Icinga 2 API credentials
r = requests.post(url, headers=header, auth=('icinga', 'icinga'), data=json.dumps(data), verify=False)

print r.status_code