There are several goals of the distributed monitoring:
Áú»¢¶Ä²© administrator may control configuration of all Nodes from a single Áú»¢¶Ä²© WEB front-end.
This is for monitoring of complex multi-level environments.
This is especially useful when monitoring several geographical locations.
Monitoring thousands of hosts using single Áú»¢¶Ä²© server? This may be for you!