Webservices checker script for nagios

gistfile1.py

#!/usr/bin/python2.7
from random import randrange
from datetime import timedelta,datetime

def prepare_message():
        message = """<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
        xmlns:SOAP-ENC="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"
        xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
        xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
        SOAP-ENV:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/">
        <SOAP-ENV:Body>
                <df:GetJourneyList xmlns:df="http://tempuri.org/">
                        <df:requestedJourney xmlns:tns="http://schemas.datacontract.org/2004/07/DreamFlightWCF">
                                <tns:AdultPrice>0</tns:AdultPrice>
                                <tns:ChildPrice>0</tns:ChildPrice>
                                <tns:ClassCode>Y</tns:ClassCode>
                                <tns:DirectFlight>false</tns:DirectFlight>
                                <tns:FlyBackDate xsi:nil="true" />
                                <tns:FlyOutDate>%sT00:00:00</tns:FlyOutDate>
                                <tns:FromAirport>SVO</tns:FromAirport>
                                <tns:InfantPrice>0</tns:InfantPrice>
                                <tns:NumOfAdults>1</tns:NumOfAdults>
                                <tns:NumOfChildren>0</tns:NumOfChildren>
                                <tns:NumOfInfants>0</tns:NumOfInfants>
                                <tns:OutFlights/>
                                <tns:ReturnFlights/>
                                <tns:SpecificAirlineCode/>
                                <tns:ToAirport>YVR</tns:ToAirport>
                                <tns:TotalPrice>0</tns:TotalPrice>
                        </df:requestedJourney>
                        <df:numberOfResults>42</df:numberOfResults>
                        <df:domain>airtickets24.com/ru</df:domain>
                </df:GetJourneyList>
        </SOAP-ENV:Body>
</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>"""
        departure_days = randrange(15,60)
        departure_date = datetime.today() + timedelta(days=departure_days)
        return message %(departure_date.strftime("%Y-%m-%d"))

def check_host(ip):

        import httplib,StringIO,gzip
        headers = {"Accept-Encoding":"gzip",
                "SOAPAction":"http://tempuri.org/IJourneySearch/GetJourneyList",
                "Content-Type":"text/xml; charset=utf-8",
                "Host":"ws.pamediakopes.gr",
                "Accpet":"*/*"
        }
        ws = httplib.HTTPConnection(ip, timeout=30)
        message = prepare_message()
        ws.request("POST","/j.svc",message,headers)
        response = ws.getresponse()
        response_information = [response.status, response.reason,response.getheader("X-Powered-By")]
        is_compressed = False
        if response.getheader("Content-Encoding") == "gzip":
                is_compressed = True
                compressed = StringIO.StringIO(response.read())
                gz = gzip.GzipFile(fileobj=compressed)
                #print gz.read()
        else:
                pass
                #print response.read()
        ws.close()
        response_information.append(is_compressed)
        return response_information

def check_arguments():
        import argparse

        parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Query flights webservices')
        parser.add_argument('ip',help='ip of the server to check')
        args = parser.parse_args()

        return args.ip

if __name__ == "__main__":
        # execute and benchmark
        start = datetime.now()
        result = check_host(check_arguments())
        end = datetime.now()
        duration = end - start

        # parse result
        string_status = "OK"
        integer_status = 0
        if not result[3]:
                string_status = "WARNING"
                integer_status = 1
        if result[0] != 200 or result[1] != "OK":
                string_status = "CRITICAL"
                integer_status = 2

        print "%s - %s|response=%fs"%(string_status
                ," ".join(map(lambda x: str(x),result))
                ,duration.seconds + duration.microseconds/1000000.0)
        exit(integer_status)