ping-based network monitoring GUI?

[Paul Watson]

"Count László de Almásy" <calmasy at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:mailman.6519.1100737717.5135.python-list at python.org...
> Greetings,
>
> I'm in need of a simple GUI application that "monitors" a range of
> hosts using ping and reports on their status by changing the panel
> color for that host (i.e, green for pingable, red for unreachable).
>
> Does anyone know of any existing opensource program that does this?
> Preferably Python so I can extend it easily.
>
> If not, what tools would you recommend I write this kind of app in?
> Ping doesn't seem to be supported by Python out of the box, and the
> modules I've looked at seem sketchy.  I looked at Expect, and see
> there's a Pexpect module available.  Once I have the core
> functionality nailed down, I'll probably wrap it with Tkinter.
>
> Thanks for any advice.

You might want to take a look at Big Brother.

http://www.bb4.org/

It provides a web interface.  While it is not written in Python, you can add 
tests in any language, including Python.  If you only want 'ping' to be 
used, you can remove many of the default monitoring reports.