[ Thanks to Andrew
Weber for this link. ]
“This is part two of a three part series on distributed
monitoring. You can use passive service and host checks to allow
non-central Nagios servers to collect data from a network of
machines and then transfer that information to a central Nagios
server. The transfer of information is done using NSCA so that the
central Nagios server will receive the data from the External
Command File interface and process the information as a passive
check.Part One: Passive Checks Course
Part Two: Central Server
Part Three: Regional Server
Nagios Training Course
Nagios Manual“In fact, in most situations you would disable service checks in
nagios.cfg so that the central server can focus on it’s
primary task. Edit nagios.cfg and modify these options:execute_service_checks=0
accept_passive_service_checks=1″