Low Level discover about py-zabbix

[dangelovich]

I'm doing exactly this, by pushing through a string in the correct format to a discovery item, which is a Zabbix Trapper.

        discovery = {}
        data = []
        for item in list(set(items)):
            data.append({"{#APPMETRIC}":item, "{#APPNAME}":item.split('.')[0].upper()})
        discovery['data'] = data
        discoverystring = json.dumps(discovery)
        logging.debug("Discovery String: %s", discoverystring)
        zabbixkey = "v20metrics.discovery[%s]" % (discoverytype)
        logging.debug("Zabbix Key: %s", zabbixkey)
        packet = [ZabbixMetric("myhostname", zabbixkey, discoverystring)]
        result = ZabbixSender(use_config='/etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf').send(packet)
        logging.debug(pprint.pformat(result))

Only problem I'm finding is that the hostname "-" isn't accepted like it would be with the zabbix_sender binary (where it would just sub in the Hostname= from the agent config). Instead, I have to pass the matching hostname. Not a big deal...