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Subject:	zendmd
Author:	Jan Garaj
Posted:	2014-06-17 16:32

Zenoss has nice feature with name zendmd. So why you don't use it Why "JSON" api

> zendmd
d = find(' d.

You can write some script in python.

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Subject:	Hi Jan, Thank you for your
Author:	[Not Specified]
Posted:	2014-06-18 04:57

Hi Jan, Thank you for your reply.

I checked the zendmd out, but unfortunately, I don't know the name of the custom properties in advance.

My application retrieves devices' details from Zenoss, so I need to first discover what are the custom properties setup in a Zenoss installation and secondly, how to retrieve the values for these properties for each device.

Considering that my application is likely to be running in a different server, I may not even have access to zendmd easily too.

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Subject:	No problem.
Author:	Jan Garaj
Posted:	2014-06-18 07:37

No problem.
> zendmd
d = find(' list_of_properties = d.custPropertyIds()
and then iterate this list_of_properties.

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Subject:	Thank you so much for the
Author:	[Not Specified]
Posted:	2014-06-18 10:38

Thank you so much for the answers Jan, I promise this is the last question - how can I get zendmd without having to perform a full installation of Zenoss

I am not likely to have access to Zenoss at all to execute those commands.

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Subject:	NP. You can have many
Author:	Jan Garaj
Posted:	2014-06-19 14:14

NP. You can have many questions. That's the reason for this forum :-)
> how can I get zendmd without having to perform a full installation of Zenoss
Good question, but I don't know answer. Usually I run zendmd script on master. Maybe you can run it everywhere, where is python if you copy all required python files for zendmd. http://dev.zenoss.org/trac/browser/tags/zenoss-4.2.5/Products/ZenModel/z...

If you need light solution, than try JSON API (and we are going back to your original question :-)). That can be reason for JSON API. But I didn't find any method for custom properties in JSON API. Also web GUI don't use JSON API in this case. So from my view you have these options:
- zendmd
- web gui parsing
- you can learn zope and then you can execute direct Zope SQL SELECT.

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