Getting list of hosts for a hostgroup, including subgroups via the API

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Hi
I am trying to get a list of hosts that belong to a host group. However the
hostgroup itself does not directly contain any hosts, the subgroups does
however.

Using the API I can get a list of hosts per hostgroup
using https://localhost/api/hostgroups/<hostgroup number>/hosts
I can get a description of the hostgroup using /api/hostgroups/<hostgroup
>

What I can't seem to get is a list of subgroups using the API and thus no
easy way of getting all the hosts in a parent group.

Other than building my own hierarchy from api/hostgroups is there a way of
getting all hosts including hosts in subgroups for a particular hostgroup?

Regards

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Hi,
You can get a list of all hosts in hostgroup or subgroups using searching
(both in the UI and API).
For example, of all of hostgroup named hg1 and subgroups you can use
"http://localhost:3000/api/v2/hosts?search=hostgroup_title~hg1*"
For only the subgroups:
"http://localhost:3000/api/v2/hosts?search=hostgroup_title~hg1/*"

The same search sting can also be used on the UI

··· On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 10:56 AM, Gerhardus Geldenhuis < gerhardus.geldenhuis@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi
I am trying to get a list of hosts that belong to a host group. However
the hostgroup itself does not directly contain any hosts, the subgroups
does however.

Using the API I can get a list of hosts per hostgroup using
https://localhost/api/hostgroups//hosts
I can get a description of the hostgroup using /api/hostgroups/<hostgroup

What I can’t seem to get is a list of subgroups using the API and thus no
easy way of getting all the hosts in a parent group.

Other than building my own hierarchy from api/hostgroups is there a way of
getting all hosts including hosts in subgroups for a particular hostgroup?

Regards

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Thanks! That is really helpfull. Should I have found that in the docs? I am a firm believer of rtfm but googling has made me a worse reader.

Regards