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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.
+
+# Map the keepalived state name to the corresponding sdnplatform role
+NEW_STATE=$3
+
+logger "notify_role.sh: Called with '$1', '$2', '$3'"
+
+
+case "$NEW_STATE" in
+"MASTER")
+  ROLE=MASTER
+  MESSAGE="Master re-election or failover."
+  ;;
+"BACKUP")
+  MESSAGE="System start up or  master re-election."
+  ROLE=SLAVE
+  ;;
+"FAULT")
+  MESSAGE="Master re-election"
+  ROLE=SLAVE
+  ;;
+*)
+  logger "notify_role.sh: Unexpected keepalived state: '$NEW_STATE'"
+  exit 1
+  ;;
+esac
+
+if [ -e "/opt/sdnplatform/health-check-error-message" ]
+then
+  MESSAGE=$(</opt/sdnplatform/health-check-error-message)
+  #echo $MESSAGE
+  # Only error code is used since encoding a string into json
+  # is error prone until a better way found to send the rest call/json
+  # There are 3 conditions that may triger failover
+  # 1) user request failover
+  # 2) ha-health-check.sh failed with non-zero
+  # 3) keepalived detects failure and initiate faili over
+  #    currently keepalived does not post detailed information
+  #    for this failover. More investigation needs to be done.
+  logger "last health check with error $MESSAGE"
+  rm -f /opt/sdnplatform/health-check-error-message
+fi
+
+logger "notify_role.sh: Updating role file with $ROLE"
+# Update the current_role file
+echo "sdnplatform.role=$ROLE" > /opt/sdnplatform/current_role
+
+logger "notify_role.sh: Updating Sdnplatform REST with $ROLE"
+# Call the sdnplatform REST API to notify about the new role
+curl -X POST -d "{\"role\":\"$ROLE\",\"change-description\":\"$MESSAGE\"}" -H "Content-Type: application/json" "http://localhost:8080/wm/core/role/json"
+
+exit 0