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Second non-perl answer: or use icinga. It's a nagios fork that looks much better (clearly arranged web interface, nagios web interface is terrific - that really matters if you have many hosts/services) and has a lot of cool features (filters, cronks etc.). But unfortunately it isn't so easy to setup as nagios.
Best regards, Karl
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