From 312771dc3e1e2c41d4d6c685c93db8f5be1c9547 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Renuka Manavalan <47282725+renukamanavalan@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2020 10:33:13 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] [monit] Periodically monitor route consistency (#5085)

* Add route_check to mont.

* Switched to units of cycles per comments

* Added comments per Joe's comments.

* Added more comments per Royal's comments.
---
 files/image_config/monit/conf.d/sonic-host | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/files/image_config/monit/conf.d/sonic-host b/files/image_config/monit/conf.d/sonic-host
index 5a67f7a990..0a881eb76f 100644
--- a/files/image_config/monit/conf.d/sonic-host
+++ b/files/image_config/monit/conf.d/sonic-host
@@ -20,3 +20,13 @@ check process rsyslog with pidfile /var/run/rsyslogd.pid
     start program = "/bin/systemctl start rsyslog.service"
     stop program = "/bin/systemctl stop rsyslog.service"
     if totalmem > 800 MB for 10 times within 20 cycles then restart
+
+# route_check.py Verify routes between APPL-DB & ASIC-DB are in sync.
+# For any discrepancy, details are logged and a non-zero code is returned
+# which would trigger a monit alert.
+# Hence for any discrepancy, there will be log messages for "ERR" level
+# from both route_check.py & monit.
+#
+check program routeCheck with path "/usr/bin/route_check.py"
+    every 5 cycles
+    if status != 0 then alert