A script written to ping a select group of IP Addresses to look for devices being down during a copier deployment

ping.py

#!/usr/bin/python

import pyping, time, datetime
log_file = open('log.txt', "a")

def log(ip):
    ts = time.time()
    time_stamp = datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(ts).strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')
    log_file.write(time_stamp + ' : ' + ip + '\n')

def test(ip):
    response = pyping.ping(ip)

    if response.ret_code == 0:
        return True
    else:
        return False

file = open('iplist.txt', 'r')
total = len(file.readlines())

count = 1

file = open('iplist.txt', 'r')
for line in file:
    line = line[0:-1]
    try:
        res = test(line)
    except:
        res = False
    if res:
        print str(count) + '/' + str(total) + ' ' + line + ' is reachable'
    else:
        print str(count) + '/' + str(total )+ ' ' + line + ' is not reachable'
        log(line)
    count = count + 1