A simple python script to ping a few branch locations and return the status. It's for the Windows ping command, but could be edited easily for Linux.

branchpinger.py

import subprocess
import os

branches = {
    '192.168.2.1':'Branch1',
    '192.168.3.1':'Branch2',
    '192.168.9.1':'Branch3',
    '192.168.5.1':'Branch4',
    '192.168.6.1':'Branch5',
    '192.168.12.1':'Branch6',
    '192.168.7.1':'Branch7',
    '192.168.14.1':'Branch8',
    '192.168.15.1':'Branch9',
    '192.168.16.1':'Branch10',
    '192.168.8.1':'Branch11',
    '192.168.21.1':'Branch12',
    '192.168.23.1':'Branch13',
    '192.168.24.1':'Branch14',
    '192.168.22.1':'Branch15'}

results = []

for ip in branches.keys():
    res = subprocess.call(['ping', '-n', "1", ip])
    if res == 0:
        results.append("Ping to" + " " +  branches[ip] + " " +  "OK")
    elif res == 2:
        results.append("No response from" + " " +  branches[ip])
    else:
        results.append("Ping to" + " " + branches[ip] + " " +  "FAILED!")

os.system('cls')

for i in results:
    print i

print " "
raw_input("Hit Enter to exit")