<html><head><base href="x-msg://614/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Oct 1, 2010, at 3:56 PM, steve f wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div class="hmmessage" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; ">I am building a package to send out to 500 locations to set up a distributed Nagios 3.2 environment.<br><br>I have scripts written that when the nagios package is dropped in a location, the script creates a hosts.cfg & a hostgroup.cfg file on the remote distributed server for the hosts he will monitor.<br><br>I just want to be 100 % sure that if the central server is not doing active checks, does the central server still have to have every remote host listed in its hosts.cfg and the hostgroup.cfg files?<br></div></span></blockquote><br></div><div>It does otherwise the central server won't know what to do with the check results that it receives.</div><br></body></html>