How to make Fabric ignore offline hosts in the env.hosts list?

Question

This is related to my previous question, but a different one.

I have the following fabfile:

from fabric.api import *

host1 = \'192.168.200.181\'
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Answer 1

Based on Matthew's answer, I came up with a decorator that accomplishes just that:

from __future__ import with_statement
from paramiko import Transport
from socket import getdefaulttimeout, setdefaulttimeout
from fabric.api import run, cd, env, roles


roledefs = {
    'greece': [
        'alpha',
        'beta'
    ],
    'arabia': [
        'kha',
        'saad'
    ]
}

env.roledefs = roledefs


def if_host_offline_ignore(fn):
    def wrapped():
        original_timeout = getdefaulttimeout()
        setdefaulttimeout(3)
        try:
            Transport((env.host, int(env.port)))
            return fn()
        except:
            print "The following host appears to be offline: " + env.host
        setdefaulttimeout(original_timeout)
    return wrapped


@roles('greece')
@if_host_offline_ignore
def hello_greece():
    with cd("/tmp"):
        run("touch hello_greece")


@roles('arabia')
@if_host_offline_ignore
def hello_arabia():
    with cd("/tmp"):
        run("touch hello_arabia")

It is especially useful when you have multiple hosts and roles.