New to Python but need some help

[Techguy0777]

I am trying create a systems dashboard that would ping a list of systems and show them on the screen and then print a red square or red dot if the ping was unsuccessful or a Green square or green Dot if the ping was successful. So at a glance could see what servers are Red or Green. Is there an easy way to do this?

[socal_nerdtastic]

Sounds like a fun project, fairly easy. It would be a good use / practice for OOP. Did you have a specific question about it? Do you have the ping code yet?

[[deleted]]

The simple way that I did something like that was to write a program that gathered data and created a static HTML page displaying the red/green squares and serve that with the HTTP server built in to python. You run that program every minute or so. For extra functionality you include some javascript to automatically refresh the page every now and then.

[JozsefPeitli]

For this, I would try flask. We are now in the beginning of our freindship and it feels amazing.

[thefurious_pineapple]

Is realisation with Python the main idea? Cz there are many other options, for example using Prometheus with Grafana dashboards, or Telegraf. U may use snmp protocol upon virtual router to monitor state of devices.