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esxname = ip
From: Badjatya, Nikunj
Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2011 5:24 PM
To: Bangalore Python Users Group - India
Subject: Background ping - check for server availability
Hi,
I want to check the availability of the server ( in the sense ) by continuously
pinging it in intervals of 30 seconds.
I am using Python2.7 on windows platform.
I wrote the following snippet. It works fine but it opens a windows cmd prompt
everytime it is reaching subprocess.call()
{{{
import subprocess
import time
def checkserveravail(ip):
while True:
pingret = subprocess.call('ping {0} -n 1'.format(esxname))
if pingret == 0:
time.sleep(30)
continue
else:
print("The server {0} is not reacheable. Please check network
connectivity".format(ip))
checkserveravail('xx.xx.xx.xx')
}}}
This snippet will be a part of larger program. Where a thread will be doing
this job of checking server recheability.
I do not want that cmd prompt windows to open everytime and just want this job
to happen in background.
I also do not want to import any external module like ping, which will
unnecessarily increase the dependencies in my programs.
Any clues?
Thanks,
Nikunj
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