pinger

There are:

• script pinger.py that fetches ip address list from database, makes ping for each ip and save results to database.
• web application app.py for managing monitoring list and viewing monitoring results
• view this and this pictures to know how it looks

How to install and use

Launch Pinger with following steps:

1. clone repository: $ git clone https://github.com/manonduty/pinger
2. go to created directory "pinger": $ cd pinger/
3. run "pip install -r requirements.txt"(using virtualenv is recomended)
4. add pinger.py to crontab:
   $ crontab -e
   set to execute pinger.py every minute. For example, add the string:
   * * * * * /usr/bin/python /data/work/virtualenvs/pinger-test/src/pinger/pinger.py
   
5. run web application to manage ip address list and view monitoring results: $ python app.py
   
6. Go to web-page http://127.0.0.1:8888/ and try to use.

• First running app.py or pinger.py will create a database file in a pinger directory
• At the upper part of the scripts app.py and pinger.py there are some variables that you may change (name for database, path to ping utility).