Python Code to Ping Servers
This is sort of a follow up from my tip last week - Cut Command a couple of examples.
Below is the code, the first section is setting the variables to read the config file, stored in certain directories, and also write out to a log file.
The code is very simple to do the ping and will write out if it responds or if it's down.
Very small easy script if you do have a long list of servers that you need to check.
import os import subprocess import sys filename = sys.argv[0] myping = "ping -n 2 " logdir = os.getenv("logs") logfile = 'dns_ping.log' logfilename=os.path.join(logdir, logfile) confdir = os.getenv("my_config") conffile = ('dns1_list.txt') conffilename=os.path.join(confdir, conffile) f = open(logfilename, "w") for server in open(conffilename): ret = subprocess.call(myping + server, shell=True,stdout=f,stderr=subprocess.STDOUT) if ret == 0: f.write (server.strip() + " is alive" + "\n") else: f.write (server.strip() + " did not respond" + "\n") print ("\n\tYou can see the results in the logfile : "+ logfilename);
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