In Python, is there a way to ping a server through ICMP and return TRUE if the server responds, or FALSE if there is no response?
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If you don't need to support Windows, here's a really concise way to do it:
import os
hostname = "google.com" #example
response = os.system("ping -c 1 " + hostname)
#and then check the response...
if response == 0:
print hostname, 'is up!'
else:
print hostname, 'is down!'
This works because ping returns a non-zero value if the connection fails. (The return value actually differs depending on the network error.) You could also change the ping timeout (in seconds) using the '-t' option. Note, this will output text to the console.
WINDOWS ONLY - Can't believe no-ones cracked open Win32_PingStatus Using a simple WMI query we return an object full of really detailed info for free
import wmi
# new WMI object
c = wmi.WMI()
# here is where the ping actually is triggered
x = c.Win32_PingStatus(Address='google.com')
# how big is this thing? - 1 element
print 'length x: ' ,len(x)
#lets look at the object 'WMI Object:\n'
print x
#print out the whole returned object
# only x[0] element has values in it
print '\nPrint Whole Object - can directly reference the field names:\n'
for i in x:
print i
#just a single field in the object - Method 1
print 'Method 1 ( i is actually x[0] ) :'
for i in x:
print 'Response:\t', i.ResponseTime, 'ms'
print 'TTL:\t', i.TimeToLive
#or better yet directly access the field you want
print '\npinged ', x[0].ProtocolAddress, ' and got reply in ', x[0].ResponseTime, 'ms'
Use this it's tested on python 2.7 and works fine it returns ping time in milliseconds if success and return False on fail.
import platform,subproccess,re
def Ping(hostname,timeout):
if platform.system() == "Windows":
command="ping "+hostname+" -n 1 -w "+str(timeout*1000)
else:
command="ping -i "+str(timeout)+" -c 1 " + hostname
proccess = subprocess.Popen(command, stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
matches=re.match('.*time=([0-9]+)ms.*', proccess.stdout.read(),re.DOTALL)
if matches:
return matches.group(1)
else:
return False
My version of a ping function:
import platform, subprocess
def ping(host_or_ip, packets=1, timeout=1000):
''' Calls system "ping" command, returns True if ping succeeds.
Required parameter: host_or_ip (str, address of host to ping)
Optional parameters: packets (int, number of retries), timeout (int, ms to wait for response)
Does not show any output, either as popup window or in command line.
Python 3.5+, Windows and Linux compatible (Mac not tested, should work)
'''
# The ping command is the same for Windows and Linux, except for the "number of packets" flag.
if platform.system().lower() == 'windows':
command = ['ping', '-n', str(packets), '-w', str(timeout), host_or_ip]
# run parameters: capture output, discard error messages, do not show window
result = subprocess.run(command, stdin=subprocess.DEVNULL, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.DEVNULL, creationflags=0x08000000)
# 0x0800000 is a windows-only Popen flag to specify that a new process will not create a window.
# On Python 3.7+, you can use a subprocess constant:
# result = subprocess.run(command, capture_output=True, creationflags=subprocess.CREATE_NO_WINDOW)
# On windows 7+, ping returns 0 (ok) when host is not reachable; to be sure host is responding,
# we search the text "TTL=" on the command output. If it's there, the ping really had a response.
return result.returncode == 0 and b'TTL=' in result.stdout
else:
command = ['ping', '-c', str(packets), '-w', str(timeout), host_or_ip]
# run parameters: discard output and error messages
result = subprocess.run(command, stdin=subprocess.DEVNULL, stdout=subprocess.DEVNULL, stderr=subprocess.DEVNULL)
return result.returncode == 0
Feel free to use it as you will.
I ended up finding this question regarding a similar scenario. I tried out pyping but the example given by Naveen didn't work for me in Windows under Python 2.7.
An example that worked for me is:
import pyping
response = pyping.send('Your IP')
if response['ret_code'] == 0:
print("reachable")
else:
print("unreachable")
Because I like to have my Python program universal on version 2.7 and 3.x and on platform Linux, Mac OS and Windows, I had to modify the existing examples.
# shebang does not work over all platforms
# ping.py 2016-02-25 Rudolf
# subprocess.call() is preferred to os.system()
# works under Python 2.7 and 3.4
# works under Linux, Mac OS, Windows
def ping(host):
"""
Returns True if host responds to a ping request
"""
import subprocess, platform
# Ping parameters as function of OS
ping_str = "-n 1" if platform.system().lower()=="windows" else "-c 1"
args = "ping " + " " + ping_str + " " + host
need_sh = False if platform.system().lower()=="windows" else True
# Ping
return subprocess.call(args, shell=need_sh) == 0
# test call
print(ping("192.168.17.142"))
import subprocess
ping_response = subprocess.Popen(["/bin/ping", "-c1", "-w100", "192.168.0.1"], stdout=subprocess.PIPE).stdout.read()
Make Sure pyping is installed or install it pip install pyping
#!/usr/bin/python
import pyping
response = pyping.ping('Your IP')
if response.ret_code == 0:
print("reachable")
else:
print("unreachable")
I had similar requirement so i implemented it as shown below. It is tested on Windows 64 bit and Linux.
import subprocess
def systemCommand(Command):
Output = ""
Error = ""
try:
Output = subprocess.check_output(Command,stderr = subprocess.STDOUT,shell='True')
except subprocess.CalledProcessError as e:
#Invalid command raises this exception
Error = e.output
if Output:
Stdout = Output.split("\n")
else:
Stdout = []
if Error:
Stderr = Error.split("\n")
else:
Stderr = []
return (Stdout,Stderr)
#in main
Host = "ip to ping"
NoOfPackets = 2
Timeout = 5000 #in milliseconds
#Command for windows
Command = 'ping -n {0} -w {1} {2}'.format(NoOfPackets,Timeout,Host)
#Command for linux
#Command = 'ping -c {0} -w {1} {2}'.format(NoOfPackets,Timeout,Host)
Stdout,Stderr = systemCommand(Command)
if Stdout:
print("Host [{}] is reachable.".format(Host))
else:
print("Host [{}] is unreachable.".format(Host))
When IP is not reachable subprocess.check_output() raises an exception. Extra verification can be done by extracting information from output line 'Packets: Sent = 2, Received = 2, Lost = 0 (0% loss)'.
Here's a solution using Python's subprocess
module and the ping
CLI tool provided by the underlying OS. Tested on Windows and Linux. Support setting a network timeout. Doesn't need root privileges (at least on Windows and Linux).
import platform
import subprocess
def ping(host, network_timeout=3):
"""Send a ping packet to the specified host, using the system "ping" command."""
args = [
'ping'
]
platform_os = platform.system().lower()
if platform_os == 'windows':
args.extend(['-n', '1'])
args.extend(['-w', str(network_timeout * 1000)])
elif platform_os in ('linux', 'darwin'):
args.extend(['-c', '1'])
args.extend(['-W', str(network_timeout)])
else:
raise NotImplemented('Unsupported OS: {}'.format(platform_os))
args.append(host)
try:
if platform_os == 'windows':
output = subprocess.run(args, check=True, universal_newlines=True).stdout
if output and 'TTL' not in output:
return False
else:
subprocess.run(args, check=True)
return True
except (subprocess.CalledProcessError, subprocess.TimeoutExpired):
return False
For python3 there's a very simple and convenient python module ping3: (pip install ping3
, needs root privileges).
from ping3 import ping, verbose_ping
ping('example.com') # Returns delay in seconds.
>>> 0.215697261510079666
This module allows for the customization of some parameters as well.
I needed a faster ping sweep and I didn't want to use any external libraries, so I resolved to using concurrency using built-in asyncio
.
This code requires python 3.7+ and is made and tested on Linux only. It won't work on Windows but I am sure you can easily change it to work on Windows.
I ain't an expert with asyncio
but I used this great article Speed Up Your Python Program With Concurrency and I came up with these lines of codes. I tried to make it as simple as possible, so most likely you will need to add more code to it to suit your needs.
It doesn't return true or false, I thought it would be more convenient just to make it print the IP that responds to a ping request. I think it is pretty fast, pinging 255 ips in nearly 10 seconds.
#!/usr/bin/python3
import asyncio
async def ping(host):
"""
Prints the hosts that respond to ping request
"""
ping_process = await asyncio.create_subprocess_shell("ping -c 1 " + host + " > /dev/null 2>&1")
await ping_process.wait()
if ping_process.returncode == 0:
print(host)
return
async def ping_all():
tasks = []
for i in range(1,255):
ip = "192.168.1.{}".format(i)
task = asyncio.ensure_future(ping(ip))
tasks.append(task)
await asyncio.gather(*tasks, return_exceptions = True)
asyncio.run(ping_all())
Sample output:
192.168.1.1
192.168.1.3
192.168.1.102
192.168.1.106
192.168.1.6
Note that the IPs are not in order, as the IP is printed as soon it replies, so the one that responds first gets printed first.
This script works on Windows, and should work on other OSes : It works on Windows, Debian, and macosx, need a test on solaris.
import os
import platform
def isUp(hostname):
giveFeedback = False
if platform.system() == "Windows":
response = os.system("ping "+hostname+" -n 1")
else:
response = os.system("ping -c 1 " + hostname)
isUpBool = False
if response == 0:
if giveFeedback:
print hostname, 'is up!'
isUpBool = True
else:
if giveFeedback:
print hostname, 'is down!'
return isUpBool
print(isUp("example.com")) #Example domain
print(isUp("localhost")) #Your computer
print(isUp("invalid.example.com")) #Unresolvable hostname: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6761
print(isUp("192.168.1.1")) #Pings local router
print(isUp("192.168.1.135")) #Pings a local computer - will differ for your network
#!/usr/bin/python3
import subprocess as sp
def ipcheck():
status,result = sp.getstatusoutput("ping -c1 -w2 " + str(pop))
if status == 0:
print("System " + str(pop) + " is UP !")
else:
print("System " + str(pop) + " is DOWN !")
pop = input("Enter the ip address: ")
ipcheck()
Programmatic ICMP ping is complicated due to the elevated privileges required to send raw ICMP packets, and calling ping
binary is ugly. For server monitoring, you can achieve the same result using a technique called TCP ping:
# pip3 install tcping
>>> from tcping import Ping
# Ping(host, port, timeout)
>>> ping = Ping('212.69.63.54', 22, 60)
>>> ping.ping(3)
Connected to 212.69.63.54[:22]: seq=1 time=23.71 ms
Connected to 212.69.63.54[:22]: seq=2 time=24.38 ms
Connected to 212.69.63.54[:22]: seq=3 time=24.00 ms
Internally, this simply establishes a TCP connection to the target server and drops it immediately, measuring time elapsed. This particular implementation is a bit limited in that it doesn't handle closed ports but for your own servers it works pretty well.
Using Multi-ping (pip install multiPing
) I made this simple code (simply copy and paste if you will!):
from multiping import MultiPing
def ping(host,n = 0):
if(n>0):
avg = 0
for i in range (n):
avg += ping(host)
avg = avg/n
# Create a MultiPing object to test hosts / addresses
mp = MultiPing([host])
# Send the pings to those addresses
mp.send()
# With a 1 second timout, wait for responses (may return sooner if all
# results are received).
responses, no_responses = mp.receive(1)
for addr, rtt in responses.items():
RTT = rtt
if no_responses:
# Sending pings once more, but just to those addresses that have not
# responded, yet.
mp.send()
responses, no_responses = mp.receive(1)
RTT = -1
return RTT
Usage:
#Getting the latency average (in seconds) of host '192.168.0.123' using 10 samples
ping('192.168.0.123',10)
If you want a single sample, the second parameter "10
" can be ignored!
Hope it helps!
After looking around, I ended up writing my own ping module, which is designed to monitor large numbers of addresses, is asynchronous and doesn't use a lot of system resources. You can find it here: https://github.com/romana/multi-ping/ It's Apache licensed, so you can use it in your project in any way you see fit.
The main reasons for implementing my own are the restrictions of the other approaches:
1 #!/usr/bin/python
2
3 import os
4 import sys
5 import time
6
7 os.system("clear")
8 home_network = "172.16.23."
9 mine = []
10
11 for i in range(1, 256):
12 z = home_network + str(i)
13 result = os.system("ping -c 1 "+ str(z))
14 os.system("clear")
15 if result == 0:
16 mine.append(z)
17
18 for j in mine:
19 print "host ", j ," is up"
A simple one i just cooked up in a minute..using icmplib needs root privs the below works pretty good! HTH
My take borrowing from other answers. Attempt to simplify and minimize queries.
import platform, os
def ping(host):
result = os.popen(' '.join(("ping", ping.param, host))).read()
return 'TTL=' in result
ping.param = "-n 1" if platform.system().lower() == "windows" else "-c 1"
Seems simple enough, but gave me fits. I kept getting "icmp open socket operation not permitted" or else the solutions would hang up if the server was off line. If, however, what you want to know is that the server is alive and you are running a web server on that server, then curl will do the job. If you have ssh and certificates, then ssh and a simple command will suffice. Here is the code:
from easyprocess import EasyProcess # as root: pip install EasyProcess
def ping(ip):
ping="ssh %s date;exit"%(ip) # test ssh alive or
ping="curl -IL %s"%(ip) # test if http alive
response=len(EasyProcess(ping).call(timeout=2).stdout)
return response #integer 0 if no response in 2 seconds
I resolve this with:
def ping(self, host):
res = False
ping_param = "-n 1" if system_name().lower() == "windows" else "-c 1"
resultado = os.popen("ping " + ping_param + " " + host).read()
if "TTL=" in resultado:
res = True
return res
"TTL" is the way to know if the ping is correctly. Saludos
#!/usr/bin/python3
import subprocess as sp
ip = "192.168.122.60"
status,result = sp.getstatusoutput("ping -c1 -w2 " + ip)
if status == 0:
print("System " + ip + " is UP !")
else:
print("System " + ip + " is DOWN !")
There is a module called pyping that can do this. It can be installed with pip
pip install pyping
It is pretty simple to use, however, when using this module, you need root access due to the fact that it is crafting raw packets under the hood.
import pyping
r = pyping.ping('google.com')
if r.ret_code == 0:
print("Success")
else:
print("Failed with {}".format(r.ret_code))
My reduction using ideas from answers in this post but only using the newer recommended subprocess module and python3:
import subprocess
import platform
operating_sys = platform.system()
nas = '192.168.0.10'
def ping(ip):
# ping_command = ['ping', ip, '-n', '1'] instead of ping_command = ['ping', ip, '-n 1'] for Windows
ping_command = ['ping', ip, '-n', '1'] if operating_sys == 'Windows' else ['ping', ip, '-c 1']
shell_needed = True if operating_sys == 'Windows' else False
ping_output = subprocess.run(ping_command,shell=shell_needed,stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
success = ping_output.returncode
return True if success == 0 else False
out = ping(nas)
print(out)
One thing a lot of the answers miss is that (at least in Windows) the ping
command returns 0 (indicating success) if it receives the reply "Destination host unreachable."
Here is my code that checks if b'TTL='
is in the response, since that is only present when the ping reached the host. Note: Most of this code is based on the other answers here.
import platform
import subprocess
def ping(ipAddr, timeout=100):
'''
Send a ping packet to the specified host, using the system ping command.
Accepts ipAddr as string for the ping destination.
Accepts timeout in ms for the ping timeout.
Returns True if ping succeeds otherwise Returns False.
Ping succeeds if it returns 0 and the output includes b'TTL='
'''
if platform.system().lower() == 'windows':
numFlag = '-n'
else:
numFlag = '-c'
completedPing = subprocess.run(['ping', numFlag, '1', '-w', str(timeout), ipAddr],
stdout=subprocess.PIPE, # Capture standard out
stderr=subprocess.STDOUT) # Capture standard error
# print(completedPing.stdout)
return (completedPing.returncode == 0) and (b'TTL=' in completedPing.stdout)
print(ping('google.com'))
Note: This captures the output instead of printing it, so if you want to see the output of ping
, you'll need to print completedPing.stdout
before returning.
Source: Stackoverflow.com