>>
Uptime for machines that are not in the database is really simple for most *ix based machines anyway - you can just issue it with the query uptime and see what values it returns
<<

Oh yeah, I use uptime all the time...I didn't think it could be done remotely though.

Hmm I wonder how my urls got into their database.

Hmm

10:40pm up 5 days, 3:23, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.02, 0.00

Had to reboot the sucker the other day :)