Cannot update Discovered hosts with role zabbix.zabbix.host due to groups not being able to be updated

[peterbaumert]

So I have my role like this:

    - role: zabbix.zabbix.host
      ### Zabbix API properties
      host_zabbix_api_server: zabbix.DOMAIN
      host_zabbix_api_port: 443
      host_zabbix_api_use_ssl: True
      host_templates: ["Linux by SNMP"]
      host_interfaces:
      - type: snmp
        ip: '{{ ansible_host if ansible_host | ansible.utils.ipaddr else omit }}'
        dns: '{{ ansible_host if not ansible_host | ansible.utils.ipaddr else omit }}'
        useip: '{{ true if ansible_host | ansible.utils.ipaddr else false }}'
        port: '161'
        details:
          version: 3
          bulk: true
          contextname: ""
          max_repetitions: 10
          securityname: "{$SNMPV3_SECURITYNAME}"
          securitylevel: authPriv
          authprotocol: sha1
          authpassphrase: "{$SNMPV3_AUTHPASS}"
          privprotocol: aes128
          privpassphrase: "{$SNMPV3_PRIVATEPASS}"
      when: inventory_hostname in groups.get('tags_zabbix_monitoring', [])

Yet it results in an error because the Host was already discovered by VMware discovery and I Just wanted to add SNMP too.

Failure is:

  Connection error: REST API returned '{'code': -32500, 'message': 'Application
  error.', 'data': 'Cannot update "groups" for a discovered host
  "HOSTNAME".'}' when sending '{'jsonrpc': '2.0', 'method': 'host.update',
  'id': 'ID', 'params': {'description':
  'Managed by Ansible. Added with "zabbix_host" module.', 'groups': [{'groupid':
  '322'}, {'groupid': '320'}, {'groupid': '319'}, {'groupid': '318'},
  {'groupid': '316'}, {'groupid': '324'}, {'groupid': '323'}, {'groupid':
  '317'}, {'groupid': '321'}, {'groupid': '325'}, {'groupid': '326'}],
  'templates': [{'templateid': '10248'}], 'templates_clear': [{'templateid':
  '10174'}], 'tags': [{'tag': 'managed', 'value': ''}], 'interfaces': [{'type':
  '2', 'main': '1', 'useip': '1', 'ip': '10.52.224.2', 'dns': '', 'port': '161',
  'details': {'version': '3', 'bulk': '1', 'max_repetitions': '10',
  'contextname': '', 'securityname': '{$SNMPV3_SECURITYNAME}', 'securitylevel':
  '2', 'authprotocol': '1', 'authpassphrase': '********', 'privprotocol': '1',
  'privpassphrase': '********'}}], 'hostid': '11440'}}'

Since its trying to add the ansible hostgroups as groups in zabbix.

[AleksandrKotsegubov]

@peterbaumert,
Thank you for your attention to our collection and for your ticket. We will consider what solution will be the most convenient to solve this problem.