Here's a blog to talk about the new process monitoring features that were recently added to Jopr:
http://management-platform.blogspot.com/2009/07/monitoring-generic-processes.html
Here's a couple demos:
http://jopr.org/confluence/display/JOPR2/Demo-ProcessMonitoring
http://jopr.org/confluence/display/JOPR2/Demo-CLIPlugin
These features are in trunk, to be included in a future release of Jopr. If you want them now, just build a distro from source.