Behavior of "Zabbix Agent availabilty" during maintenance periods

[sbelkin]

I use Zabbix 7 LTS on RHEL8, and I've found that item "Windows: Zabbix agent availability" gets differents values on Maintenance Mode without data collection.
I've found that even when host is powered off. The value is sometimes 1 and other times 0, for example, .

Take a look:


So, what is the default behavior of this item during maintenance periods?
Thanks in advance

[sbelkin]

Hi Zabbix community, I've found that Zabbix Agente Availabilty keeps on collecting data even on Maintenance Periods without data collection. While this may be reasonable since it's an internal item, when using that item to calculate the availability of a given host, it would treat those periods as unavailable. Which, although true, it would be nice if one could disable that item or stop it from collecting data, since during that time we don't actually consider the host being unavailable to be a problem. It would be great if there were an option to do that.
What do you think, should I raise a ticket?

[cyber]

Documented feature... So "works as expected"...

https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/current/en/manual/config/items/itemtypes/internal

Internal checks are processed by server or proxy regardless of the host maintenance status.

You can always suggest to change the behaviour, but I doubt it will gather enough attention..: