title: Any way to access Gearman administration?
body: <p>I want to be able to query a gearman server to determine how many instances of a worker I have running (basically I want to make sure that <code>RunTaskA</code> is available and <code>RunTaskB</code> is available if there are no workers handling those tasks, I want to be able to send an alert out.</p>
  
  <p>Is there any way to do this? </p>
  
  <p>Also: Mad props if you know of a PHP way to query the gearman server.</p>
  
  <p><strong>Edit</strong>: I know about the PHP gearman extension that is available natively, but I am not looking for a task submission extension, I need something that allows me to query the gearman server and see how many workers are serving a specific task.</p>