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+#!/usr/bin/python
+
+"""
+This example monitors a number of hosts using host.popen() and
+pmonitor()
+"""
+
+from mininet.net import Mininet
+from mininet.node import CPULimitedHost
+from mininet.topo import SingleSwitchTopo
+from mininet.log import setLogLevel
+from mininet.util import custom, pmonitor
+
+def monitorhosts( hosts=5, sched='cfs' ):
+    "Start a bunch of pings and monitor them using popen"
+    mytopo = SingleSwitchTopo( hosts )
+    cpu = .5 / hosts
+    myhost = custom( CPULimitedHost, cpu=cpu, sched=sched )
+    net = Mininet( topo=mytopo, host=myhost )
+    net.start()
+    # Start a bunch of pings
+    popens = {}
+    last = net.hosts[ -1 ]
+    for host in net.hosts:
+        popens[ host ] = host.popen( "ping -c5 %s" % last.IP() )
+        last = host
+    # Monitor them and print output
+    for host, line in pmonitor( popens ):
+        if host:
+            print "<%s>: %s" % ( host.name, line.strip() )
+    # Done
+    net.stop()
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    setLogLevel( 'info' )
+    monitorhosts( hosts=5 )