Zabbix KT Session

Zabbix Reports & Maintenance creation

21st June 2023. Zabbix Team.

Copyright © 2023 Blue Yonder Group, Inc. Confidential.

1. Maintenance
MAINTENANCE
Overview
• You can define maintenance periods for
host groups, hosts and specific
triggers/services in Zabbix.

• There are two maintenance types - with

data collection and with no data collection.
 Maintenance
•WITH DATA COLLECTION

•In Maintenance → If you create a maintenance

period with data collection, the triggers are processed
as usual, but any related problems are suppressed
 Maintenance
•WITH NO DATA COLLECTION

•In Maintenance → If you create a maintenance period

with no data collection, no related metrics will be
collected during the maintenance period
 Configuration
How to define a Zabbix maintenance period:

To configure a maintenance period:→

 Go to: Data collection → Maintenance.

 Click on Create maintenance period (or on the name of an existing maintenance period).
 Enter maintenance parameters in the form.

PARAMETERS

• Name(Name of the maintenance period)

• Maintenance type(With Data Collection/ No Data Collection)
• Active since(The date and time when executing maintenance periods becomes active.)
• Active till(The date and time when executing maintenance periods stops being active)
• Periods(Clicking on opens a popup window with a flexible Maintenance period form where you can define maintenance schedule)
 Maintenance periods

The maintenance period window is for scheduling time for a recurring or a one-time maintenance. The form is dynamic with available fields changing based on the Period type selected.

Period types:-

• ONE Time Only

• Daily
• Weekly
• Monthly
 Displaying hosts in maintenance

An orange wrench icon next to the host name indicates that this host is in maintenance in:

Maintenance details are displayed when the mouse pointer is positioned over the icon.
 Displaying suppressed problems

Normally problems for hosts in maintenance are suppressed, i.e. not displayed in the frontend. However, it is also possible to configure that suppressed problems are shown, by selecting the Show suppressed problems option in these locations:

•Dashboards (in Problem hosts, Problems, Problems by severity, Trigger overview widget configuration)
•Monitoring → Problems (in the filter)

When suppressed problems are displayed, the following icon is displayed: . Rolling a mouse over the icon displays more details.
2.Users and user groups
 Configuring a user
Overview The initial Zabbix installation has two predefined users:
• Admin - a Zabbix superuser with full permissions
• guest - a special Zabbix user. The ’guest’ user is disabled by default. If you add it to the
Guests user group, you may access monitoring pages in Zabbix without being logged in.
Note that by default, ’guest’ has no permissions on Zabbix objects.
 Configuring a user

To configure a new user:

•Go to Administration → Users
•Click on Create user (or on the user
name to edit an existing user)
•Edit user attributes in the form
3.Reports
 Reports

• ZABBIX UI LATEST DATA

• Self-Service Portal
• Web Based Report
Questions?