Status handles the scheduling of the polling, or the actual polling, or both? One thing Nagios handles well, although it isn't exactly well polished, is distri

Status handles the scheduling of the polling, or the actual polling, or both? One thing Nagios handles well, although it isn't exactly well polished, is distribution, scheduling, and aggregation of the polling. Also, anecdotally, "nobody" seems to know how easy it is to do simple-intermediate monitoring of MS-SQL in Nagios. I happen to be using this, at the moment: https://github.com/scot0357/check_mssql_collection https://github.com/scot0357/check_mssql_collection edit: And thank you for the concise explanation of Hiera. I had entirely ignored it as just another add-on as Puppet "goes enterprise"