Make Remote.is_online more accurate

To really know if the connection is active, we need to read something
from the remote host.

Signed-off-by: Zack Cerza <zack.cerza@inktank.com>

diff --git a/teuthology/orchestra/remote.py b/teuthology/orchestra/remote.py
index f38fccae53276d127191edec41b5e96568464c56..24b9453c427640289facc23d60e63dbfc478713e 100644 (file)
--- a/teuthology/orchestra/remote.py
+++ b/teuthology/orchestra/remote.py
@@ -60,6 +60,10 @@ class Remote(object):
 
     @property
     def is_online(self):
+        try:
+            self.run(args="echo online")
+        except Exception:
+            pass
         return self.ssh.get_transport().is_active()
 
     @property