command = "ping -c 1 {} 1 {}".format(Pool.ping_timeout_option, hostname)
(status, output) = subprocess.getstatusoutput(command)
+# print ("""
+#----------
+#Ping command <{command}> has returned {status}
+#--
+#{output}
+#----------
+# """.format(**locals()))
return status == 0
####################