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Hi All,
I am pretty new to Nagios. Wants to understand one basic thing, as per my understanding XI server connects to agent on the node for every parameter monitoring seperately. For instance for each FS on the node, server will connect individually. Is there a way if agent collects all data and then report to management server? I am asking because I have bandwidth limitations.

Depending on the host, agent and check being performed the data transmission is generally near negligible. Probably 1KB or less per active check.

http://assets.nagios.com/downloads/gene ... utions.pdf

There are ways to do distributed monitoring, that may reduce bandwidth usage, however ultimately it would do it by means of turning the active type check into a passive type check, meaning the Nagios server doesn't instantiate the check but rather it just sits and collects results making it a 1 way data transmission. Please see the following document.

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

To more clearly answer your question, there is no builtin way of aggregating a pile of active service checks together, they are purposefully discrete.