I'll only address distributed monitoring. Use NSCA instead of NRPE. That bypasses the limitations of the Nagios active check scheduling. I have a wrapper that I

I'll only address distributed monitoring. Use NSCA instead of NRPE. That bypasses the limitations of the Nagios active check scheduling. I have a wrapper that I use for that: http://rbcarleton.com/send_nsca_service_check.shtml http://rbcarleton.com/send_nsca_service_check.shtml Use some kind of automation system like CFEngine for the distributed scheduling. Some assembly required ;)