How do I check the services on remote machines

[Lingyun Yang]

Hi:
   I am running nagios to monitoring a cluster. There are different 
kinds of services running on different machines. How could I use nagios 
to monitor the services on remote machines? I know I may need to write  
new plugins to check the service status. My question is: how could I 
send the service status back to nagios's machine. Do I need to write a 
client  which running on the remote machine and send check results back 
to nagios periodically? or is there any existing nagios's figure 
supporting this functionality?

thanks
Lingyun

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