diff --git a/systemvm/patches/debian/config/opt/cloud/bin/update_config.py b/systemvm/patches/debian/config/opt/cloud/bin/update_config.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..ed3d3fbd598
--- /dev/null
+++ b/systemvm/patches/debian/config/opt/cloud/bin/update_config.py
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+#!/usr/bin/python
+
+import syslog
+import sys
+
+# first commandline argument should be the file to process
+if ( len(sys.argv) != 2 ):
+    print "Invalid usage"
+    sys.exit(1)
+
+json_file = sys.argv[1]
+
+syslog.syslog(sys.argv[0] + " called for file " + json_file)