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+#
+#==================================================================================
+# Copyright (c) 2020 Nokia
+# Copyright (c) 2020 AT&T Intellectual Property.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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+# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
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+#==================================================================================
+#
+
+This directory contains the source for any support tools which
+are distributed with the RMR runtime package. Support tools
+might provide means to query information about an RMR based
+application using the RMR_CTL_PORT.
+
+Support tools:
+ health_ck -- A generic health check application which
+ sends n messages to the application running
+ at the indicated host:port and expects to
+ receive n responses. Exit code is a simple
+ binary: 0 == received responses, 1 == failure.
+
+
+Support tools are automatically built and included in the
+runtime package (deb or rpm).