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+#!/bin/bash
+#
+# Copyright (c) 2013 Big Switch Networks, Inc.
+#
+# Licensed under the Eclipse Public License, Version 1.0 (the
+# "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the
+# License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#      http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or
+# implied. See the License for the specific language governing
+# permissions and limitations under the License.
+
+#
+# This script is invoked as part of VRRP track_script function
+# The goal is to do a health check of sdnplatform through a rest API
+# invocation, and if health is not good, then return with error code
+#
+if [ -e "/opt/sdnplatform/health-check-error-message" ]
+then
+  rm -f /opt/sdnplatform/health-check-error-message
+fi
+
+FAILOVER=$3
+
+if [ -e "/opt/sdnplatform/force-one-time-health-check-failure" ]
+then
+  logger "$0: force-one-time-health-check-failure file exists -- returning error exit code"
+  rm -f /opt/sdnplatform/force-one-time-health-check-failure
+  echo "User requested failover." > /opt/sdnplatform/health-check-error-message
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+if [ "$FAILOVER" ] ; then
+    exit 0
+fi
+
+if [ -e "/var/run/sdnplatform-healthcheck-disabled" ]; then
+   OLD=`cat /var/run/sdnplatform-healthcheck-disabled`
+   NEW=`date +%s`
+   if [ $NEW -gt $OLD ]; then
+       # if new timestamp is greater, remove the file and do health check
+       rm -f /var/run/sdnplatform-healthcheck-disabled 
+   else
+       # skip the health check and exit
+       exit 0
+   fi
+fi
+
+COUNT=$1
+STEP=$2
+TIMER=0
+start="$(date +%s%N)"
+while [ $TIMER -le $COUNT ] ; do
+    curl -f -s "http://localhost:8080/wm/core/health/json"
+    ERROR=$?
+    if [ $ERROR -eq 0 ]; then
+        break
+    fi
+    sleep $STEP
+    TIMER=$((STEP+TIMER))
+done
+duration="$(($(date +%s%N)-start))"
+duration="$((duration/1000000))"
+logger "ha-health checker took $duration milliseconds"
+if [ $ERROR -ne 0 ]; then
+  logger "$0: sdnplatform health check failed with error code $ERROR"
+  echo "Controller health check failed." > /opt/sdnplatform/health-check-error-message
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+exit 0