smoketest: T5783: check for any abnormal daemon termination

We need to ensure when stressing FRR with the smoketests that no unexpected
crash happens. We simply verify the PID of the individual FRR daemons.

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/smoketest/scripts/cli/test_protocols_rip.py b/smoketest/scripts/cli/test_protocols_rip.py
index 925499fc8..bfc327fd4 100755
--- a/smoketest/scripts/cli/test_protocols_rip.py
+++ b/smoketest/scripts/cli/test_protocols_rip.py
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python3
 #
-# Copyright (C) 2021 VyOS maintainers and contributors
+# Copyright (C) 2021-2023 VyOS maintainers and contributors
 #
 # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 or later as
@@ -34,7 +34,8 @@ class TestProtocolsRIP(VyOSUnitTestSHIM.TestCase):
     @classmethod
     def setUpClass(cls):
         super(TestProtocolsRIP, cls).setUpClass()
-
+        # Retrieve FRR daemon PID - it is not allowed to crash, thus PID must remain the same
+        cls.daemon_pid = process_named_running(PROCESS_NAME)
         # ensure we can also run this test on a live system - so lets clean
         # out the current configuration :)
         cls.cli_delete(cls, base_path)
@@ -65,8 +66,8 @@ class TestProtocolsRIP(VyOSUnitTestSHIM.TestCase):
         self.cli_delete(base_path)
         self.cli_commit()
 
-        # Check for running process
-        self.assertTrue(process_named_running(PROCESS_NAME))
+        # check process health and continuity
+        self.assertEqual(self.daemon_pid, process_named_running(PROCESS_NAME))
 
     def test_rip_01_parameters(self):
         distance = '40'