Collecting data during maintenance

Navigate to Configuration | Maintenance and click on Create maintenance period. In the resulting form, fill in these values:

  • Name: Enter Normal maintenance
  • Maintenance type: With data collection
  • Active since: Make sure this is set to the start of your current day or earlier
  • Active till: Make sure this is set to a year or so in the future
  • Description: Enter we keep data during this maintenance

What's that? Are we really creating a year-long maintenance period? Not really. Switch to the Periods tab:

Here, the Zabbix terminology is a bit confusing. The main tab has since-till fields, which allow us to set ...

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