pingmon.py

Simple utility to ping a host forever and log the result.

Installation

cd pingmon
python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt

Usage

./pingmon.py <monitor_host>

Use ./pingmon.py --help for additional information.

I wish I could build this in but so far it is just wishful (maybe by building as a daemon and then providing a cli to communicate with and send commands to/read commands from a common db):

# start pingmon
# (to also not accept a SIGHUP from it's current process)
# and background it
nohup ./pingmon <monitor_host> &
# now detach it from the current process
disown

where the better behavior I think

pingmon start <monitor_host>

and output something like...

<timestamp> ping monitor requested for host ...
<timestamp> ping monitor started for host ...

which would indicate that ping monitor had successfully started

internal question to myself:

in the case of no active ping monitor should it try to start one locally by default? or just suggest the directions to do so?

pingmon stop <monitor_host>

would then:

• record request to stop pingmon to host
• validate that monitor stopped or host didn't exist in monitor table/queue/topic/whatever