basic server sits on port and listens and spits out canned json message

monitor.py

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+#!/usr/bin/python
+#
+# Copyright 2012 Dan Ballard and Robert Hausch
+#
+## License:
+#
+# This file is part of System-Monitoring-Daemon.
+#
+# System-Monitoring-Daemon is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# System-Monitoring-Daemon is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with System-Monitoring-Daemon.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+##
+
+from socket import *
+
+HOST = ''
+PORT = 6000
+ADDR = (HOST, PORT)
+BUFSIZE = 4096
+MAX_QUEUE = 5
+
+
+class Stats:
+	def __init__(self):
+		self.cpu_load = 50
+
+class ClientHandler:
+	def __init__(self, stats):
+		self.stats = stats
+
+	def handle(self, sock):	
+		conn_sock.send('{ cpu_load: %d}' % (self.stats.cpu_load))
+		conn_sock.close()
+
+stats = Stats()
+	
+serv_sock = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM)
+# Behave better after crash
+serv_sock.setsockopt(SOL_SOCKET, SO_REUSEADDR, 1)
+
+
+serv_sock.bind((ADDR)) #tuple with one param
+serv_sock.listen(MAX_QUEUE)
+
+
+while 1:
+	try:
+		(conn_sock,addr) = serv_sock.accept()
+	except KeyboardInterrupt:
+		print "exiting..."
+		break;
+	except:
+		conn_sock = 0
+	if conn_sock:
+		#fork
+		#conn_sock.send('{ cpu_load: %d}' % (stats.cpu_load))
+		client = ClientHandler(stats)
+		client.handle(conn_sock)
+
+
+serv_sock.close()
+