connectionCheck.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
# connectionCheck

import sys
from urllib2 import urlopen
import socket

host = sys.argv[1]
port = int(sys.argv[2])
size = 1024
s = None


try:
    socket.setdefaulttimeout(1) 
    s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
    s.connect((host,port))
except socket.timeout, (message):
    if s:
       s.close()
    print "Socket opened but connection timeout" 
    sys.exit(1)
except socket.error, (value,message):
    if s:
        s.close()
    print "Could not open socket: " + message
    sys.exit(1)
#s.send('Hello, world')
#data = s.recv(size)
s.close()
#print 'Received:', data
print "Connection Ok! "