distributed monitoring = remote monitoring?

[Toby Kraft]

All,

Question regarding distributed monitoring - is the benefit of this 
configuration primarily to distribute the service check workload among 
several servers or is it used primarily to support a distributed WAN 
environment allowing you to have active checking nagios boxes in remote 
locations that funnel their status results to a central monitoring nagios 
server?

The docs say it's for offloading cpu load and don't really talk about 
remote locations and such.  But the architecture seems to fit a 
distributed WAN environment.

I have a couple of clients that have, say, 3-5 locations, each with < 10 
hosts and 20-30 services at each site to monitor.  I was under the 
impression that the distributed approach would isolate the traffic for the 
active service checks to the local lan and only send status info to the 
central server when something 'interesting' happens.  Is that correct?  Is 
this kind of environment suitable for distributed nagios or would it be 
overkill to go the distributed route?

Thanks,

Toby
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