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+# Copyright 2015 The Chromium OS Authors. All rights reserved.
+# Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
+# found in the LICENSE file.
+"""Utilities relating to machine-specific functions."""
+
+from __future__ import print_function
+
+from cros_utils import command_executer
+
+
+def MachineIsPingable(machine, logging_level='average'):
+  """Checks to see if a machine is responding to 'ping'.
+
+  Args:
+    machine: String containing the name or ip address of the machine to check.
+    logging_level: The logging level with which to initialize the
+      command_executer (from command_executor.LOG_LEVEL enum list).
+
+  Returns:
+    Boolean indicating whether machine is responding to ping or not.
+  """
+  ce = command_executer.GetCommandExecuter(log_level=logging_level)
+  cmd = 'ping -c 1 -w 3 %s' % machine
+  status = ce.RunCommand(cmd)
+  return status == 0