Re: [Fab-user] how to skip unreachable hosts

[John Eikenberry]

Nicolas Michel wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I have some roles where sometimes hosts are unreachable. For now the fab
> tool exit the loop and don't execute the code on further hosts of my role
> list.
> Is there a way to avoid that behavior, set a kind of timeout and skip the
> host if fab can't connect to it?

If you can work it into your code, it is easy to do manually.

def online(host):
    """ Is host reachable on the network?
    """
    if _quiet(fab.local)("ping -c 1 -W 1 %s" % host).failed:
        return False
    return True

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