checking services

We have many windows services on several servers.
How do you suggest to build a silverlight 4.0 application which monitors these services on servers?
I am thinking to have a functionality to check the status of each service on each server every so often i.e. every few seconds...

What are your thoughts please?
Thanks

Here's the msdn documentation on accessing Web Services: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...54(VS.95).aspx

Make sure you check the link there about accessing services across domain boundaries if there's multiple domains.