[BangPypers] Background ping - check for server availability

[Nikunj.Badjatya at emc.com]

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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