We will create a couple of maintenance periods and see how they affect several views in the frontend. We will discuss the available time period options and set up two different maintenance periods:
- One that will not affect data collection
- One that stops data collection
Before working with maintenance periods, ensure that the time zones configured for the PHP and Zabbix server hosts match. Otherwise, the time displayed in the frontend will differ from the time the actual maintenance takes place. In fact, it is also very important to have a proper ntpd or chronyd service on your hosts and server configured, otherwise weird time issues can occur when hosts lag behind the server and/or proxies.