/usr/sbin/bcfg2-ping-sweep is in bcfg2-server 1.2.2-2.
This file is owned by root:root, with mode 0o755.
The actual contents of the file can be viewed below.
| 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 | #!/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()
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