Michael Pobega's questions

I run a medium-sized Nagios server. It monitors roughly 40 servers with 180 services currently and is only growing by the day.

I migrated from an old Nagios setup that was configured in a very esoteric fashion, forcing me to reconfigure everything from scratch.

Now that the server is running and works for most of what we need it for, I'm looking into making it a bit more scalable; currently each hosts is its own file in /etc/nagios/hosts/, and each host has all of its services in the same file. This is obviously not optimal, but neither is obfuscating all of my configuration into hundreds of different files.

So my question is this: to any experienced Nagios admins out there, what is the best way to make use of hostgroups/servicegroups without over-complicating the configuration?

I need a solution for mounting *nix /home dirs remotely from Windows. I need something that will have Windows treat the files as a native device and allow you to open/edit files with any local program (similar to how SSHFS works). If I'm not being clear enough I can elaborate.