Remote Trending Collection

[Raccroc]

I have a few dozen RHEL 3/4 servers from which I need to collect some statistical data. I am being asked to collect various processor utilization averages from each of these to be put inside an spreadsheet for The Suits.

Couple of notes:
1. Unfortunately, I cannot utilize our current monitoring solution to gather this data (politics). We are putting an in-dept. monitoring/trending solution in place, but it will not be ready in time.
2. All systems are running sysstat on a 30 day rotational basis and the files do contain the data I need.

I tried to find a sysstat package that would allow me to push/pull the data to a centralized server; however, I haven't had much luck with it (an I really don't need any of their graphing functionality).
I also looked into scripting a solution; however, I am not the best script writer and it is starting to look like a very nasty hack.

Questions:
Could anyone could point me in the direction of a quick and dirty (non-graph) trending program (proc mostly) that can be centralized?
Does anyone have any sample scripts which you may have used to do this type of thing with sysstat? I am much better at manipulating scripts then writing from scratch, so anything would help.

I am in need of quick and easy, as this is a short term solution needed pretty much right away.

Thank you.

[anomie]

You might want to check out gnuplot. I haven't done any significant amount of work with it, so I don't have examples.

Personally, I like to convert data to comma-separated fields and then bring it into gnumeric to make pretty graphs. But it sounds like your needs are different than mine.