How it works...
By having a master server that is capable of seeing other servers in an estate, you give yourself the visibility needed to know when problems have occurred that need your immediate attention.
Monitoring tools such as Nagios and Icinga2 usually work by interacting with a remote machine, querying its status by using either scripts on the box, or custom commands remotely, and reporting on the output of those commands. This can be done in a variety of ways, including, but not limited to, the NRPE agent, remote SSH commands, or SNMP results queried from an SNMP daemon.
By creating a single-source-of-truth on the state of your infrastructure, you can learn immediately when there's a problem with your estate, and even correlate data ...
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