There are a bunch of *NIX hosts that run processes that I'm interested
in.  The idea of telnetting to each box, and doing "ps -ef | grep
something"  over and over doesn't appeal to me.

What I'm looking for is a Java (app, applet, servlet - any of them
would do) that shows me active processes across multiple *nix hosts.

Is there something out there that someone's already written that does
this?

I've done a bit of googling, but most of what I found has you
installing things on the *NIX machine, which I really would like to
avoid.  I did find a few Runtime exec things, which I suppose would be
okay, but I'd rather just find something that drives a telnet client
(like jakarta commons-net, or something), does a ps, collects the
output and compares to my list of 'interesting processes'.

Anything like that out there, or am I going to have to build it myself?

--Dale--