Zenoss

Zenoss API for Collection Zone and Resource Manager

The long-standing Zenoss JSON router API, still documented and supported for Zenoss Cloud Collection Zones and on-premises Zenoss Resource Manager / Service Dynamics. Every call is an HTTP POST of a JSON envelope — {"action": "", "method": "", "data": [...], "tid": } — to a router path under /zport/dmd (for example device_router, events_router, triggers_router). 61 routers are documented, covering devices, events, event classes, triggers, templates, reports, jobs, users, LDAP, SAML IdP, licensing, ZenPacks, impact and vendor-specific surfaces (AWS, Azure, vSphere, Hyper-V, OpenStack, Cisco UCS, EMC Isilon, SMI-S). Collection Zones authenticate with a z-api-key header; Resource Manager uses HTTP Basic. Zenoss states that some of this functionality will be replaced by the newer /v1 API services over time.

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Documentation

https://docs.zenoss.com/api/background.html

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APIReference

https://docs.zenoss.com/api/reference/devicerouter.html

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GettingStarted

https://docs.zenoss.com/api/how-to/use-curl.html

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Authentication

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/zenoss/refs/heads/main/authentication/zenoss-authentication.yml

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Conventions

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/zenoss/refs/heads/main/conventions/zenoss-conventions.yml

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API entry from apis.yml

aid: zenoss:zenoss-router-api
name: Zenoss API for Collection Zone and Resource Manager
description: 'The long-standing Zenoss JSON router API, still documented and supported for Zenoss Cloud
  Collection Zones and on-premises Zenoss Resource Manager / Service Dynamics. Every call is an HTTP POST
  of a JSON envelope — {"action": "<Router>", "method": "<method>", "data": [...], "tid": <n>} — to a
  router path under /zport/dmd (for example device_router, events_router, triggers_router). 61 routers
  are documented, covering devices, events, event classes, triggers, templates, reports, jobs, users,
  LDAP, SAML IdP, licensing, ZenPacks, impact and vendor-specific surfaces (AWS, Azure, vSphere, Hyper-V,
  OpenStack, Cisco UCS, EMC Isilon, SMI-S). Collection Zones authenticate with a z-api-key header; Resource
  Manager uses HTTP Basic. Zenoss states that some of this functionality will be replaced by the newer
  /v1 API services over time.'
humanURL: https://docs.zenoss.com/api/background.html
baseURL: https://{collection-zone-host}/cz0/zport/dmd
tags:
- Monitoring
- Event Management
- Infrastructure
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.zenoss.com/api/background.html
- type: APIReference
  url: https://docs.zenoss.com/api/reference/devicerouter.html
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://docs.zenoss.com/api/how-to/use-curl.html
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/zenoss-authentication.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/zenoss-conventions.yml