Setting Zabbix maintenance periods
When we are working on our Zabbix server or on other hosts, it's super useful to set up maintenance periods in the Zabbix frontend. With maintenance periods we can make sure that our Zabbix users don't get alerts going off because of our maintenance. Let's see how we can schedule maintenance periods in this recipe.
Getting ready
All we are going to need in this recipe is our Zabbix server, for which I'll use lar-book-centos. The server will need at least some hosts and host groups to create maintenance periods on. Furthermore, we'll need to know how to navigate the Zabbix frontend.
How to do it…
- Let's get started with this recipe by logging in to our frontend and navigating to Configuration | Maintenance.
- We are going to click on the blue Create maintenance period button in the top-right corner.
- This will bring us to the next page, where we can set up our maintenance period. On the first...
