If you need additional monitoring, then you might be better setting up an SNMP server on the machine and querying it all the values that you need. If you follow this path, then you can use Net::SNMP module to make your own scripts. You can also use a contrib collection from MRTG software distribution. MRTG is a something specifically design for monitoring, and (surprise, surprise!) is written in Perl. I'll also add a link to MRTG section on my site, in case you decide to look. :)

Leonid Mamtchenkov

Without going through the whole headache that SNMP can be (though it is well worth it where its possibilities are actually exploited), you can also benefit from various other very capable opensource monitoring packages like Nagios (formerly NetSaint), mon and Big Brother.

Makeshifts last the longest.

use CGI qw(:all);

print header;
#replace your dir here ... this is Win2K IIS
my @rv = `dir /s c:\\Inetpub`;

print "<pre>";
foreach(@rv){ s/[^\w\n \\]+//ig; } #Removes Win2K yuck
# more sophisticated stuff left as exercise 
print @rv;
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system "du -sh <your dir>";
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