title: Scripting library for monitoring server health?
body: <p>Is there a scripting library preferably in Python/Perl/Ruby that allows you to get information on disk, load, a list of processes running, cpu usage in a standard way?</p>
  
  <p>I always end up parsing df, uptime, ps etc. Given that these differ on different Unix flavors and need to be done in a totally different way on Windows, I would have thought that someone would have already done this.</p>