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in reply to Obtaining server status??

Of course as somebody else pointed out nagois is a good tool for monitoring servers. There is another software called Zabbix (see http://www.zabbix.com/) that works quite well too. Nagios is definitely the classic tool IMHO, however i have had great experiences with zabbix as well.
-Pizentios