diff --git a/router-daemon/pvcrd/Daemon.py b/router-daemon/pvcrd/Daemon.py
index 24b509bc..1f26f887 100644
--- a/router-daemon/pvcrd/Daemon.py
+++ b/router-daemon/pvcrd/Daemon.py
@@ -193,6 +193,7 @@ else:
     transaction.create('/routers/{}/daemonstate'.format(myhostname), 'stop'.encode('ascii'))
     transaction.create('/routers/{}/networkstate'.format(myhostname), 'secondary'.encode('ascii'))
     transaction.create('/routers/{}/staticdata'.format(myhostname), ' '.join(staticdata).encode('ascii'))
+    transaction.create('/routers/{}/cpuload'.format(myhostname), '0'.encode('ascii'))
     # Keepalives and fencing information
     transaction.create('/routers/{}/keepalive'.format(myhostname), str(keepalive_time).encode('ascii'))
     transaction.create('/routers/{}/ipmihostname'.format(myhostname), config['ipmi_hostname'].encode('ascii'))