Hello All,
Hope everyone of you are safe and sound.
I am trying to do some testing and monitoring on a loop while making sure the internet connection is working. If the Internet connection is down, I want the script to be on a loop until it’s up again, and let me know the down time, up time and continue it’s work.
Being a self learned person I am not the best at it in basics. I try stuff, do stuff and check if they work 
So please be kind enough to bare with me and help me out.
The below Script does a job of checking if the Network is available and be on loop until it’s back and let’s us know the connected time, down time, reconnected time and how long was it off. ( which I found on a website blog )
def main():
# MAIN
monitor_start_time = datetime.datetime.now()
# monitoring time is when the script
# started monitoring internet connection status
monitoring_date_time = "monitoring started at: " + \
str(monitor_start_time).split(".")[0]
if first_check():
# if true
print(monitoring_date_time)
# monitoring will only start when
# the connection will be acquired
else:
# if false
while True:
# infinite loop to check if the connection is acquired
# will run until there is a live internet connection
if not ping():
# if connection not acquired
time.sleep(1)
else:
# if connection is acquired
first_check()
print(monitoring_date_time)
break
with open(FILE, "a") as file:
# writes into the log file
file.write("\n")
file.write(monitoring_date_time + "\n")
while True:
# FIRST WHILE, infinite loop,
# will run untill the machine is on
# or the script is manually terminated
if ping():
# if true: the loop will execute after every 5 seconds
time.sleep(5)
else:
# if false: fail message will be displayed
down_time = datetime.datetime.now()
fail_msg = "disconnected at: " + str(down_time).split(".")[0]
print(fail_msg)
with open(FILE, "a") as file:
# writes into the log file
file.write(fail_msg + "\n")
while not ping():
# infinite loop,
# will run till ping() return true
time.sleep(1)
up_time = datetime.datetime.now()
# will execute after while true is
# false (connection restored)
uptime_message = "connected again: " + str(up_time).split(".")[0]
down_time = calculate_time(down_time, up_time)
# calling time calculating
# function, printing down time
unavailablity_time = "connection was unavailable for: " + down_time
print(uptime_message)
print(unavailablity_time)
with open(FILE, "a") as file:
# log entry for connected restoration time,
# and unavailability time
file.write(uptime_message + "\n")
file.write(unavailablity_time + "\n")
I took the above code and did something below,
This part below is prior to the loop begins of testing,
FILE = os.path.join(os.getcwd(), "Network Log.log")
def ping():
try:
socket.setdefaulttimeout(3)
s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
host = "8.8.8.8"
port = 53
server_address = (host, port)
s.connect(server_address)
except OSError as error:
return False
else:
s.close()
return True
def calculate_time(start, stop):
difference = stop - start
seconds = float(str(difference.total_seconds()))
return str(datetime.timedelta(seconds=seconds)).split(".")[0]
def first_check():
if ping():
live = "\nCONNECTION ACQUIRED\n"
print(live)
connection_acquired_time = datetime.datetime.now()
acquiring_message = "connection acquired at: " + \
str(connection_acquired_time).split(".")[0]
print(acquiring_message)
with open(FILE, "a") as file:
file.write(live)
file.write(acquiring_message)
return True
else:
not_live = "\nCONNECTION NOT ACQUIRED\n"
print(not_live)
with open(FILE, "a") as file:
file.write(not_live)
return False
first_check()
MY CODES TO : LOGIN
monitor_start_time = datetime.datetime.now()
monitoring_date_time = "monitoring started at: " + \
str(monitor_start_time).split(".")[0]
Then the below inside a >>> for loop <<< which starts as :
while True:
if ping():
time.sleep(3)
MY CODES FOR : TESTING
else:
down_time = datetime.datetime.now()
fail_msg = "disconnected at: " + str(down_time).split(".")[0]
print(fail_msg)
with open(FILE, "a") as file:
file.write(fail_msg + "\n")
while not ping():
time.sleep(10)
up_time = datetime.datetime.now()
uptime_message = "connected again: " + str(up_time).split(".")[0]
down_time = calculate_time(down_time, up_time)
unavailablity_time = "connection was unavailable for: " + down_time
print(uptime_message)
print(unavailablity_time)
with open(FILE, "a") as file:
file.write(uptime_message + "\n")
file.write(unavailablity_time + "\n")
My requirement has been that my testing works if the connection is available and stop the code as soon as possible if the connection is down until we reconnect.
the testing code runs for around like 30 seconds to maximum of 1 minute if that of any concern ( if monitoring and testing cannot work simultaneously )
The scrip currently starts and works for few seconds and after couple of loops or so throws the below errors,
(socket.timeout: timed out)
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
(urllib3.exceptions.ReadTimeoutError: HTTPConnectionPool(host=’’, port=): Read timed out. (read timeout=<object object at 0x0000025D197186F0>)
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
