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Sounds like you're looking for a network monitoring system. Big Sister comes to mind, but I've not looked at it in a long time. It's perl based.

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Re^2: Obtaining server status??
by spadacciniweb (Curate) on Apr 18, 2013 at 14:36 UTC
    or nagios

    (($_="Mzz ojjdloobnf jt uvy5502383")=~y~b-zg2-5c96-81~a-z0-9~s)=~s~~~s; print
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