ping_test: Don't error if ping fails

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/ping_tester/ping_test.py b/ping_tester/ping_test.py
index 6e19b3f..f6b7238 100755
--- a/ping_tester/ping_test.py
+++ b/ping_tester/ping_test.py
@@ -28,7 +28,12 @@ def main(sample_count=5):
         ["ping", "-c", str(sample_count), hostname],
         stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
 
-    val = patt.search(out.stdout.decode("us-ascii")).groupdict()
+    # Prevent failing with an error if the ping fails
+    match = patt.search(out.stdout.decode("us-ascii"))
+    if not match:
+        return 1
+
+    val = match.groupdict()
 
     client.put_metric_data(
         Namespace="VPNLatency",
@@ -91,6 +96,8 @@ def main(sample_count=5):
         ]
     )
 
+    return 0
+
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
-    main()
+    sys.exit(main())