Attempt at salt module

oobling.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
import json
import sys
import dns.resolver
import re
import subprocess

# as salt is installed in the OS'es python path and conda knows nothing about it ... 
sys.path.append("/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages")
import salt.client

# regex, we only want to see the oobs in our list.
regex=re.compile("^(oob-[^.]+).*")

# get a list of all accepted keys from the salt-master
jdata = subprocess.Popen(["sudo salt-key -l acc --out json"], stdout=subprocess.PIPE, shell=True)
(out, err) = jdata.communicate()
#print "program output:", out
#print type( out )
#print "program error:", err

data = json.loads(out)

# set up a DNS resolver to we can query bind on the NMS for oobs interfaces
my_resolver = dns.resolver.Resolver()
my_resolver.nameservers = ['192.168.1.1']

# empty dictionary to receive ib and ob IPs per minion.
ips = {}
def __virtual__():
  '''
  Dummy virtual because I have no idea why this is needed
  '''
  return True

def get_oobs_extra_ips():
  # list of oobs extracted from salt's list.
  oobs = [ str(x) for x in [m.group(1) for l in data['minions'] for m in [regex.search(l)] if m] ]
  for minion in oobs:
    tmpips = list()
    print minion
    try:
      answer = my_resolver.query(minion)
      for rdata in answer:
        print "Address", rdata.address
      try: 
        ib = my_resolver.query(minion+'-ib')
        print( ib[0].address )
        tmpips.append( ib[0].address )
      except dns.exception.DNSException:
        print "no IB"
      try: 
        ob = my_resolver.query(minion+'-ob')
        print( ob[0].address )
        tmpips.append( ob[0].address )
      except dns.exception.DNSException:
        print "no OB"
    except dns.exception.DNSException:
      print "nothing here"
    print ""  
    ips[minion] = tmpips
  for key, value in ips.iteritems():
    print key
    print ' '.join(value)
  return ips  

if __name__ == "__main__":
      print get_oobs_extra_ips()