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+import os
+
+DEBUG = True
+TEMPLATE_DEBUG = DEBUG
+PROD = False
+USE_SSL = False
+
+LOCAL_PATH = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))
+DATABASES = {
+    'default': {
+        'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
+        'NAME': os.path.join(LOCAL_PATH, 'dashboard_openstack.sqlite3'),
+    },
+}
+
+CACHE_BACKEND = 'dummy://'
+
+# Add nixon to dash installation.
+INSTALLED_APPS = (
+'dashboard.nixon',
+)
+
+# Send email to the console by default
+EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.console.EmailBackend'
+# Or send them to /dev/null
+#EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.dummy.EmailBackend'
+
+# django-mailer uses a different settings attribute
+MAILER_EMAIL_BACKEND = EMAIL_BACKEND
+
+# Configure these for your outgoing email host
+# EMAIL_HOST = 'smtp.my-company.com'
+# EMAIL_PORT = 25
+# EMAIL_HOST_USER = 'djangomail'
+# EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'top-secret!'
+
+
+OPENSTACK_ADMIN_TOKEN = "999888777666"
+OPENSTACK_KEYSTONE_URL = "http://localhost:5000/v2.0/"
+OPENSTACK_KEYSTONE_DEFAULT_ROLE = "Member"
+
+# NOTE(tres): Available services should come from the service
+#             catalog in Keystone.
+SWIFT_ENABLED = False
+
+# Configure quantum connection details for networking
+QUANTUM_ENABLED = True
+QUANTUM_URL = '127.0.0.1'
+QUANTUM_PORT = '9696'
+QUANTUM_TENANT = '1234'
+QUANTUM_CLIENT_VERSION='0.1'
+
+# If you have external monitoring links
+EXTERNAL_MONITORING = [
+    ['Nagios','http://foo.com'],
+    ['Ganglia','http://bar.com'],
+]
+
+# If you do not have external monitoring links
+# EXTERNAL_MONITORING = []
+
+# Uncomment the following segment to silence most logging
+# django.db and boto DEBUG logging is extremely verbose.
+#LOGGING = {
+#        'version': 1,
+#        # set to True will disable all logging except that specified, unless
+#        # nothing is specified except that django.db.backends will still log,
+#        # even when set to True, so disable explicitly
+#        'disable_existing_loggers': False,
+#        'handlers': {
+#            'null': {
+#                'level': 'DEBUG',
+#                'class': 'django.utils.log.NullHandler',
+#                },
+#            'console': {
+#                'level': 'DEBUG',
+#                'class': 'logging.StreamHandler',
+#                },
+#            },
+#        'loggers': {
+#            # Comment or Uncomment these to turn on/off logging output
+#            'django.db.backends': {
+#                'handlers': ['null'],
+#                'propagate': False,
+#                },
+#            'django_openstack': {
+#                'handlers': ['null'],
+#                'propagate': False,
+#            },
+#        }
+#}
+
+# How much ram on each compute host?
+COMPUTE_HOST_RAM_GB = 16