Python Connectivity Tester

To test if a connection can be established when there is no telnet available we can use this python

#!/usr/bin/env python import socket import sys if len(sys.argv) < 3: print ("IP and PORT needed as parameters...") sys.exit("Exiting...") print ('Running for:') print ('IP:', str(sys.argv[1])) print ('PORT:',str(sys.argv[2])) TCP_IP = str(sys.argv[1]) TCP_PORT = int(str(sys.argv[2])) BUFFER_SIZE = 1024 MESSAGE = "Hello, World!" print ('Connecting...') try: s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM) s.settimeout(5) s.connect((TCP_IP, TCP_PORT)) print ("Connected") s.close() #######this is for a different python#### except socket.error, exc: except Exception: #######this is for a different python#### print "Error: %s" % exc print ("Error: ", sys.exc_info()[1])