> Unfortunately, that means NOTHING to my boss, who likes to see %CPU
busy.
> What is the best explanation of load average I can give my boss.

"average number of processes eligible to run in the last 5 minutes"

> Also has anyone seen a decent check_cpu widget for Nagios?

Use NRPE or the SNMP cpuAverage value in MIB-II. For MP boxen, there
will be a separate counter for each processor. 

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