Zabbix Documentation 2.2

object maintenance.create(object/array maintenances)

This method allows to create new maintenances.

(object/array) Maintenances to create.

Additionally to the standard maintenance properties, the method accepts the following parameters.

(object) Returns an object containing the IDs of the created maintenances under the maintenanceids property. The order of the returned IDs matches the order of the passed maintenances.

Create a maintenance with data collection for host group “2”. It must be active from 22.01.2013 till 22.01.2014, come in effect each Sunday at 18:00 and last for one hour.

Request:

{
    "jsonrpc": "2.0",
    "method": "maintenance.create",
    "params": {
        "name": "Sunday maintenance",
        "active_since": 1358844540,
        "active_till": 1390466940,
        "groupids": [
            "2"
        ],
        "timeperiods": [
            {
                "timeperiod_type": 3,
                "every": 1,
                "dayofweek": 64,
                "start_time": 64800,
                "period": 3600
            }
        ]
    },
    "auth": "038e1d7b1735c6a5436ee9eae095879e",
    "id": 1
}

Response:

{
    "jsonrpc": "2.0",
    "result": {
        "maintenanceids": [
            "3"
        ]
    },
    "id": 1
}

• Time period

CMaintenance::create() in frontends/php/api/classes/CMaintenance.php.