Multi Linguistic Ping (pingping)

• Introduction
• Docs
• Commands
• Pre-requisites
• Installation and Downloads
• FAQ
• Other Resources
• Bug Tracker and Support
• Unit-Tests
• License and Copyright
• Author and Thanks

Introduction

pingping is a special library which understands multi linguistic of ping output and translated the result to machine understandable format. i.e. Json

pingping is a vendor independent library where you can parse any language ping output

pingping support tcping which works on transport layer i.e. Ping on proxy server, here ping refers to seding packets via tcp protocol to check the connectivity.

Docs

How to use pingping?

• Command Line
  Type pingping <ip-address> or pingping <ip-address> --web. For more help type pingping -h

• Python
  It's very simple, create an object of Ping and call ping method with ip address. Internally it calls system ping command and captures the needed result.

How to run ping command?

# cli
pingping 192.168.1.1
pingping 1.1.1.1

# python code
obj = Ping()
print(obj.ping('192.168.1.1'))
print(obj.ping('1.1.1.1'))

# python tcping ping 
obj = Ping(command='tcping', layer=4, timeout=3)
print(obj.ping('192.168.1.1'))
print(obj.ping('1.1.1.1'))

It returns Json output and easy to understand by the keys of it.

{"ip": "192.168.1.1", "loss_percentage": 100.0}
{"ip": "1.1.1.1", "loss_percentage": 0.0, "min": 55.669, "avg": 78.198, "max": 130.778, "time_in": "ms"}

How to capture result from ping output?

I am having ping result how to analise the output of it.

Ping.fetch_ping_data(ping_output) # it's a class method.

It automatically identifies the ip address and important details from it. It doesn't have any language barier.

{"ip": "1.1.1.1", "loss_percentage": 0.0, "min": 55.669, "avg": 78.198, "max": 130.778, "time_in": "ms"}

Commands

Usage pingping  <ip-address>
                -c | --count <Number>
                -l4 | --web | --tcp | --http (ping over proxy)
                -h | --help

Pre-requisites

pingping supports both trains of python 2.7+ and 3.1+, the OS should not matter.

• shconfparser is used to captured the data.

Installation and Downloads

The best way to get pingping is with setuptools or pip. If you already have setuptools, you can install as usual:

python -m pip install pingping

Otherwise download it from PyPi, extract it and run the setup.py script

python setup.py install

If you're Interested in the source, you can always pull from the github repo:

• From github git clone https://github.com/network-tools/pingping.git

FAQ

• Question: I want to use pingping with Python3, is that safe?
  Answer: As long as you're using python 3.3 or higher, it's safe. I tested every release against python 3.1+, however python 3.1 and 3.2 not running in continuous integration test.

• Question: I want to use pingping with Python2, is that safe?
  Answer: As long as you're using python 2.7 or higher, it's safe. I tested against python 2.7.

Other Resources

• Python3 documentation is a good way to learn python
• Python GeeksforGeeks
• JSON

Bug Tracker and Support

• Please report any suggestions, bug reports, or annoyances with pingping through the Github bug tracker. If you're having problems with general python issues, consider searching for a solution on Stack Overflow.
• If you can't find a solution for your problem or need more help, you can ask a question.
• You can also ask on the Stack Exchange Network Engineering site.

Unit Tests

• pingping project unit tests are running at GitHub Actions via pytest for Python 2.7 and 3.x.

• The current build status is:

  

License and Copyright

• pingping is licensed MIT 2019

  

Author and Thanks

pingping was developed by Kiran Kumar Kotari