Sends ping telemetry to server

testping.sh

#!/bin/sh

descr=$(uname -n)
job=$(uname -n | cut -d"-" -f3)
dest="fdca:ffee:8::2001"
count=5

# do not change below here

result=$(ping $dest -c $count)

package_loss=$(echo "$result" | tail -2 | head -1 | cut -d" " -f 7 | tr -d "%")
roundtrip=$(echo "$result" | tail -1 | cut -d " " -f 4 | cut -d "/" -f 2)

data () {
        echo ping_package_loss{descr=\"$descr\"} $package_loss
        if [ "$roundtrip" != '' ] ; then echo "ping_roundtrip{descr=\"$descr\"} $roundtrip"; fi
}

request () {
        # http header
        echo "POST /metrics/job/$job HTTP/1.0"
        echo "Content-Length: $(data|wc -c)"
        echo "Lifetime: 2m"
        echo

        data
}

request