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#!/usr/bin/python
#GenerateHostInfo - Joey Hagedorn - hagedorn@mcs.anl.gov

"""Generates hostinfo.xml at a regular interval."""

__revision__ = '$Revision$'

from os import dup2, execl, fork, uname, wait
import sys
import time
import lxml.etree

import Bcfg2.Options

if __name__ == '__main__':
    opts = {'repo': Bcfg2.Options.SERVER_REPOSITORY,
            'configfile': Bcfg2.Options.CFILE}
    setup = Bcfg2.Options.OptionParser(opts)
    setup.parse(sys.argv[1:])

    cfpath = setup['configfile']
    clientdatapath = "%s/Metadata/clients.xml" % setup['repo']

    clientElement = lxml.etree.parse(clientdatapath)
    hostlist = [client.get('name')
                for client in clientElement.findall("Client")]

    pids = {}
    null = open('/dev/null', 'w+')

    #use uname to detect OS and use -t for darwin and -w for linux
    #/bin/ping on linux /sbin/ping on os x
    osname = uname()[0]

    while hostlist or pids:
        if hostlist and len(list(pids.keys())) < 15:
            host = hostlist.pop()
            pid = fork()
            if pid == 0:
                # in child
                dup2(null.fileno(), sys.__stdin__.fileno())
                dup2(null.fileno(), sys.__stdout__.fileno())
                dup2(null.fileno(), sys.__stderr__.fileno())
                if osname == 'Linux':
                    execl('/bin/ping', 'ping', '-w', '5', '-c', '1', host)
                elif osname in ['Darwin', 'FreeBSD']:
                    execl('/sbin/ping', 'ping', '-t', '5', '-c', '1', host)
                elif osname == 'SunOS':
                    execl('/usr/sbin/ping', 'ping', host, '56', '1')
                else:  # default
                    execl('/bin/ping', 'ping', '-w', '5', '-c', '1', host)
            else:
                pids[pid] = host
        else:
            try:
                (cpid, status) = wait()
            except OSError:
                continue
            chost = pids[cpid]
            del pids[cpid]
            elm = clientElement.xpath("//Client[@name='%s']" % chost)[0]
            if status == 0:
                elm.set("pingable", 'Y')
                elm.set("pingtime", str(time.time()))
            else:
                elm.set("pingable", 'N')

    fout = open(clientdatapath, 'w')
    fout.write(lxml.etree.tostring(clientElement.getroot(),
                                   encoding='UTF-8',
                                   xml_declaration=True))
    fout.close()