# Zenoss API for Collection Zone and Resource Manager

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/zenoss/zenoss-router-api/  
**Provider:** Zenoss — https://apis.io/providers/zenoss/  
**Base URL:** https://{collection-zone-host}/cz0/zport/dmd  
**Documentation:** https://docs.zenoss.com/api/background.html

Zenoss API for Collection Zone and Resource Manager is one of 3 APIs that [Zenoss](https://apis.io/providers/zenoss/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Monitoring, Event Management, and Infrastructure. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation, an API reference, a getting-started guide, and authentication docs.

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.

## Machine-readable artifacts (5)

- **Documentation** — https://docs.zenoss.com/api/background.html
- **APIReference** — https://docs.zenoss.com/api/reference/devicerouter.html
- **GettingStarted** — https://docs.zenoss.com/api/how-to/use-curl.html
- **Authentication** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/zenoss/refs/heads/main/authentication/zenoss-authentication.yml
- **Conventions** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/zenoss/refs/heads/main/conventions/zenoss-conventions.yml

## Other Zenoss APIs (2)

- [Virtana Service Observability API](https://apis.io/apis/zenoss/zenoss/)
- [Zenoss Cloud gRPC Services](https://apis.io/apis/zenoss/zenoss-grpc/)

## Tags

Monitoring, Event Management, Infrastructure

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