The scoop on remote hosts...which method?

[nuffers at tsainc.com]

I use NRPE at this time because I feel that it uses minimizes the number 
of services entries in the config.  I may be wrong but let me explain what 
I mean.

If you have a service on several systems but have unique thresholds, a 
service would have to be defined for each host to account for the 
different warning/critical levels.  Any change would mean stop/starting 
Nagios. 

With using NRPE, I have the one service definition for several hosts.  The 
actual configuration for the thresholds is on the host in the nrpe.cfg.  I 
use another file and include it in the nrpe.cfg.  If a change is needed, I 
change the value on the host.  I don't need to stop/start Nagios. 

The other reason I like this method is that I don't want several people 
mucking with the config files.  There are three people in my group and its 
easier to explain where to change the levels on the local host then to 
have them in the config files.

 I appreciate the feedback as to other ways to accomplish this.

Steve
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