examples/popen.py

#!/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 )