Script to ping all hosts in the /etc/hosts file and report there status.

ping-hosts

#!/usr/bin/python                                                                                                                                                                                                                        
# Script to ping all hosts in the /etc/hosts file and report there status.                                                                                                                                                               

import os
from time import gmtime, strftime

with open("/etc/hosts","r") as f:
    hosts = f.readlines()

print "-" * 70
print strftime("%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S +0000", gmtime())

for h in hosts:
    if len(h.strip()) < 1:
        continue
    if h.strip().startswith("#"):
        continue
    host = h.split()[1]
    if host.startswith("ip6"):
        continue
    print host, " "*(27-len(host)),
    if os.system("ping -c 1 -w 1 " + host + " > /dev/null 2>&1") == 0:
        print "live"
    else:
        print "down"