You can monitor your servers nicely graphs using iStat for iphone.
these are instructions for Gentoo:

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wget http://github.com/downloads/tiwilliam/istatd/istatd-0.5.7.tar.gz
tar xpf istatd-0.5.7.tar.gz
cd istatd-0.5.7
./configure
make
make install 
useradd istat
mkdir -p /var/{run,cache}/istat /home/istat
chown istat.istat /var/{run,cache}/istat /home/istat

Create and edit /etc/istat.conf to match your server specs.
This config is for my OpenVZ vps.

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#
# /etc/istat.conf: Configuration for iStat server
#
 
# IP Address to listen
network_addr           77.88.xx.xx
 
# choose any port, Default is 5109
network_port           55666 
 
# this is password, 5 digits
server_code            12345
 
server_user            istat
server_socket          /var/run/istat/istat.sock
server_pid             /var/run/istat/istat.pid
cache_dir              /var/cache/istat
monitor_net              venet0
monitor_disk             ( /dev/simfs )

Start istatd server:

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sudo -u istat istatd -d -c /etc/istat.conf

you might add it to /etc/conf.d/local.start to auload on startup

Then download iStat for iphone http://bjango.com/apps/istat/ it’s only $0.99
and add your server to the list.

Here are some screenshots, first is server and second image is my macbook discovered with bonjour.

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