Central Server In Nagios Help

Nagios Nagios Configuration support
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HI,

Can any one explain/guide me what is the difference between the central and distributed server. And what will be there role if i setup a distributed server with the central Server. Is there any guide that how to install and configure central and distributed Server on Linux.
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i need a configuration guide that how to setup a central nagios server other than the nagios documentation. if anyone have then help me - i want to configure central server of nagios in my office. waiting

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http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/distributed.html

Basically you define all your hosts/services on a “Central Server”. The Central Server need not do any monitoring, but it can perform checks an a subset of nodes. The Central Server is configured for passiv checks for a set of nodes and services monitored by another instance of Nagios. This “Distributed Server” submits all it’s results to the “Central Server”. This gives you a single cohesive view of your network.

It’s up to you whether you fell there is an advantage to doing this. Personally I’d rather have several instances of Nagios and check each independently of the others.