diff --git a/cookbooks/consul/files/usr/local/bin/check_file b/cookbooks/consul/files/usr/local/bin/check_file
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8622cee
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cookbooks/consul/files/usr/local/bin/check_file
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+TARGET=$1
+
+if [ -f ${TARGET} ]; then
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+exit 0
diff --git a/cookbooks/consul/monitoring.rb b/cookbooks/consul/monitoring.rb
index c9bfde4..63944de 100644
--- a/cookbooks/consul/monitoring.rb
+++ b/cookbooks/consul/monitoring.rb
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+remote_file '/usr/local/bin/check_file' do
+  owner 'root'
+  group 'root'
+  mode '755'
+end
+
 %w(reboot-required).each do |conf|
   remote_file "/etc/consul.d/check-#{conf}.json" do
     owner 'root'