Zenoss 3.1.0 (Core)

I have written a custom AIX SSH zenpack that gathers basic CPU, memory statistics.  That works great.

I recently added an SSH based custom modeler plugin (based on the supplied Linux one) that successfully populates the GUI "Components"->"OS Processes" section after a device remodel.  This works great too.

Problem:

How do I get process status information (i.e. process state, cpu, mem. usage) à la zenprocess.py but via SSH instead of SNMP?  These AIX hosts do not expose the needed process information via SNMP so I have to use SSH (I don't want to reconfigure SNMP on them - it's out of the question).  I found this post from Jane Curry from 2009 that seems to describe this same predicament but there is no solution provided:

message/29520#29520

this is a cross-post of same:

message/38662#38662

Has anyone tackled writing an SSH based version of zenprocess or is this capability already available in Core and I'm just not seeing it?

Thanks!

Chock