The scoop on remote hosts...which method?

[Calvin Crutchfield]

Latest Versions of Nagios and plugins
Nagios running on solaris
Approx 300 remotes hosts running  a mix of solaris and linux located all
over the US.  

I spent the last couple days getting Nagios up and adding localhost services
along with remote port  services.  Now I need to do some remote services,
after-all how useful would it be without it.

>From my reading,  there are 2 major options.  Of course the FAQ doesn't
contain any opinions.  From what I gather it stands like this:

Check_by_ssh:  Active service from the the Nagios server.  Used with SSH
keys, rather than password.  The services executables, check_disk,
check_load etc need to reside on the remote host.  Anything else
significant?

NRPE:  all service executables need to reside on remote, there is a daemon
running on the remote and each remote host needs some config of the
inetd.conf

To me the obvious choice is check_by_ssh.  However, pleased correct or add
to my synopsis of the options.  I would love to be pointed to more
documentation, sites, blogs etc... on the above two topics preferably
dealing with install/config.  I need make a decision on my method and have
it implemented in only a few days.

Thanks



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