Distributed network monitoring introduction
A number of mid-level network monitoring products, like What’s Up Gold & Intellipool for instance, have recently implemented distributed monitoring features. Mid-level network monitoring products are now implementing distributed monitoring so it is affordable by a lot more companies.
Single Poller Monitoring
With regular network monitoring you have a single poller measuring network and server performance from a single location on your network.
Figure 1: Architecture of a central polling in a distributed network