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 ...