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. One improvement you’ll find in Zabbix 7 is the inclusion of near-instant maintenance periods. As we no longer have to wait long for the config cache reload, Zabbix also altered the timer process to instantly enable a new maintenance period.
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-rocky. The server will need at least some hosts and host groups to create maintenance periods for. 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...
