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Subject:	Two ways:
Author:	[Not Specified]
Posted:	2015-08-12 08:39

Two ways:

Have your python script do a callout to the zensendevent CLI.

Use the API EventsRouter add_event method.

Advantage of using the API is that you don't need to have any Zenoss components installed on your Selenium server.

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Subject:	Thanks for the super quick
Author:	[Not Specified]
Posted:	2015-08-12 08:50

Thanks for the super quick response! I will start looking into these.

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Subject:	If you're new to the API
Author:	[Not Specified]
Posted:	2015-08-12 10:02

If you're new to the API start here: http://wiki.zenoss.org/Working_with_the_JSON_API

There's a bash script that you can use to prototype your JSON API calls. As a Perl guy I have a bunch of perl routines that I use (JSON::Parse and Data::Dumper really come in handy). I added some stuff about events to the Wiki but here's what you need to get started.

Download the json_api.sh script mentioned at the top of the wiki. That gives you a shell function called zenoss_api. Then:

zenoss_api evconsole_router EventsRouter add_event '{"summary":"$summary","device":"$device","component":"$component","severity":$severity,"evclasskey":"$evkey","evclass":"$evclass"}'