worker script

worker-snippet.py

//there's an argument payload that gets a json file passed in containing the hosts

args = parser.parse_args()

hosts = False
if args.payload is not None:
    payload = json.loads(open(args.payload).read())
    if 'herokuping' in payload:
        hosts = (payload['herokuping']['hosts'])

print hosts

for host in hosts:
  print "Pinging "+host
  httpServ = httplib.HTTPConnection(host, 80)
  httpServ.connect()
  httpServ.request('GET', "/")