ping stats

ping.py

import argparse
import ConfigParser
import subprocess
import shlex
import re
import time

'''Ping Class to monitor arbitrary ping times
'''


class Ping():
    hostname = "localhost"

    def __init__(self, hostname="localhost"):
        self.hostname = hostname.strip()

    def ping_host(self):
        command = 'ping -c 1 %s' % self.hostname
        args = shlex.split(command)
        out = subprocess.check_output(args)
        result = re.search('time=([0-9]+\.[0-9]+)', out)
        return float(result.group(1))

if __name__ == "__main__":
    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
    parser.add_argument("-c", "--config", help="the config file to use example: [ --config=/etc/ping.ini ]", default=None)
    parser.add_argument("-f", "--frequency", help="the frequency to poll example:[ -f 10 ]", default=60, type=float)
    parser.add_argument("--hosts", help="the hosts to poll example:[ --hosts=localhosts,myserver.com ]", default="localhost", type=str)

    args = parser.parse_args()

    if args.config is not None:
        config = ConfigParser.RawConfigParser()
        config.read(args.config)
        hosts = config.get('ping', 'hosts')
        frequency = config.getfloat('ping', 'frequency')
    else:
        hosts = args.hosts
        frequency = args.frequency
    ping_hosts = []
    for h in hosts.split(','):
        ping_hosts.append(Ping(hostname=h))

    while True:
        for h in ping_hosts:
            print "%s.ping" % h.hostname, h.ping_host()
        time.sleep(frequency)