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+#
+# Copyright (c) 2013 Big Switch Networks, Inc.
+#
+# Licensed under the Eclipse Public License, Version 1.0 (the
+# "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the
+# License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#      http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or
+# implied. See the License for the specific language governing
+# permissions and limitations under the License.
+#
+
+# Django settings for sdncon project.
+
+import os, sys
+#from cassandra.ttypes import ConsistencyLevel
+
+DEBUG = True
+DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS = DEBUG
+TEMPLATE_DEBUG = DEBUG
+
+ADMINS = (
+    # ('Your Name', 'your_email@domain.com'),
+)
+
+MANAGERS = ADMINS
+
+DATABASES = {
+    'default': {
+        #'ENGINE': 'django_cassandra.db',
+        'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
+        'NAME': 'sdncon',
+        'USER': '',                      # Not used with sqlite3.
+        'PASSWORD': '',                  # Not used with sqlite3.
+        'HOST': '',                      # Set to empty string for localhost. Not used with sqlite3.
+        'PORT': '',                      # Set to empty string for default. Not used with sqlite3.
+    }
+}
+
+# Settings for accessing the stats database/keyspace.
+# This does not go through the usual Django model/database layer, but
+# instead accesses Cassandra directly.
+STATS_DATABASE = {
+    'NAME': 'sdnstats',
+    #'HOST': '',
+    #'USER': '',
+    #'PASSWORD': '',
+    #'CASSANDRA_REPLICATION_FACTOR': 1
+}
+
+# Local time zone for this installation. Choices can be found here:
+# http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_zones_by_name
+# although not all choices may be available on all operating systems.
+# On Unix systems, a value of None will cause Django to use the same
+# timezone as the operating system.
+# If running in a Windows environment this must be set to the same as your
+# system time zone.
+#TIME_ZONE = 'America/Los_Angeles'
+TIME_ZONE = None
+
+# Language code for this installation. All choices can be found here:
+# http://www.i18nguy.com/unicode/language-identifiers.html
+LANGUAGE_CODE = 'en-us'
+
+SITE_ID = '1'
+
+# Tell Django where is the profile object
+#AUTH_PROFILE_MODULE = "sdncon.account.UserProfile"
+
+# If you set this to False, Django will make some optimizations so as not
+# to load the internationalization machinery.
+USE_I18N = True
+
+# If you set this to False, Django will not format dates, numbers and
+# calendars according to the current locale
+USE_L10N = True
+
+# Absolute path to the directory that holds media.
+# Example: "/home/media/media.lawrence.com/"
+SDN_ROOT = "/opt/sdnplatform" if not 'SDN_ROOT' in os.environ else os.environ['SDN_ROOT']
+MEDIA_ROOT = "%s/con/lib/python/django/contrib/admin/media/" % SDN_ROOT
+
+# URL that handles the media served from MEDIA_ROOT. Make sure to use a
+# trailing slash if there is a path component (optional in other cases).
+# Examples: "http://media.lawrence.com", "http://example.com/media/"
+MEDIA_URL = ''
+STATIC_URL = '/static/'
+
+# URL prefix for admin media -- CSS, JavaScript and images. Make sure to use a
+# trailing slash.
+# Examples: "http://foo.com/media/", "/media/".
+ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX = '/media/'
+
+# URL prefixes exempted from login requirements
+EXEMPT_URLS = ['/coreui/static/', '/coreui/img/', '/favicon.ico']
+
+# Make this unique, and don't share it with anybody.
+SECRET_KEY = 'p+7!f6@8ry2%faunco@u@$wzq7_jpyw4w7+sn=&xpuvo%2!uw('
+
+# List of callables that know how to import templates from various sources.
+TEMPLATE_LOADERS = (
+    'django.template.loaders.filesystem.Loader',
+    'django.template.loaders.app_directories.Loader',
+#     'django.template.loaders.eggs.Loader',
+)
+
+from django.conf.global_settings import TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS as GLOBAL_TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS
+TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS = GLOBAL_TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS + (
+    'sdncon.clusterAdmin.utils.uicontext',
+)
+
+MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = (
+    'sdncon.HARedirectMiddleWare',
+    'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
+    'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
+    'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware',
+    'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware',
+    'sdncon.clusterAdmin.middleware.ClusterAuthenticate',
+    'sdncon.clusterAdmin.middleware.RequireAuthMiddleware',
+    'django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware',
+    'sdncon.SDNConAppLoaderMiddleWare',
+)
+
+# Django uses browser-length cookies that expire as soon as the user closes the browser.
+SESSION_EXPIRE_AT_BROWSER_CLOSE = True
+SESSION_COOKIE_AGE = 2592000 # 30 days, in seconds
+
+ROOT_URLCONF = 'sdncon.urls'
+
+TEMPLATE_DIRS = (
+    # Put strings here, like "/home/html/django_templates" or "C:/www/django/templates".
+    # Always use forward slashes, even on Windows.
+    # Don't forget to use absolute paths, not relative paths.
+    os.path.dirname(__file__),
+    os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__),'clusterAdmin/templates'),
+)
+
+# Include applications dynamically from the apps folder
+
+APP_DIR = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__),'apps')
+sys.path.append(APP_DIR)
+
+apps_array = [
+    'django.contrib.auth',
+    'django.contrib.contenttypes',
+    'django.contrib.sessions',
+    'django.contrib.staticfiles',
+    #'django.contrib.sites',
+    'django.contrib.messages',
+    # Uncomment the next line to enable the admin:
+    'django.contrib.admin',
+    'djangotoolbox',
+    'sdncon.rest',
+    'sdncon.controller',
+    #'django_cassandra',
+    'sdncon.coreui',
+    'sdncon.clusterAdmin',
+    #'sdncon.account',
+    'sdncon.ui',
+    'sdncon.stats',
+    'sdncon.syncd',
+    'sdncon.statdropd'
+]
+
+directory = os.listdir(APP_DIR)
+for filename in directory:
+    if not filename.startswith('.'):
+        apps_array.append(os.path.basename(filename))
+
+INSTALLED_APPS = tuple(apps_array)
+
+STATS_METADATA_MODULES = []
+
+_stats_meatadata_dir_name = 'stats_metadata'
+_stats_metadata_dir = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), _stats_meatadata_dir_name)
+_directory = os.listdir(_stats_metadata_dir)
+
+for _filename in _directory:
+    _basename = os.path.basename(_filename)
+    if _basename.endswith('.py') and _basename != '__init__.py':
+        _module_name = os.path.splitext(_basename)[0]
+        STATS_METADATA_MODULES.append('sdncon.%s.%s' % (_stats_meatadata_dir_name, _module_name))