diff --git a/xos/synchronizer/vsg_hw_config.yaml b/xos/synchronizer/config.yaml
similarity index 84%
rename from xos/synchronizer/vsg_hw_config.yaml
rename to xos/synchronizer/config.yaml
index 4ea0b5b..0b5a2b4 100644
--- a/xos/synchronizer/vsg_hw_config.yaml
+++ b/xos/synchronizer/config.yaml
@@ -19,11 +19,18 @@
   - VSGHWService
   - VSGHWServiceInstance
   - ServiceInstanceLink
-accessor:
-  username: xosadmin@opencord.org
-  password: "@/opt/xos/services/vsg-hw/credentials/xosadmin@opencord.org"
 dependency_graph: "/opt/xos/synchronizers/vsg-hw/model-deps"
 steps_dir: "/opt/xos/synchronizers/vsg-hw/steps"
-sys_dir: "/opt/xos/synchronizers/vsg-hw/sys"
 model_policies_dir: "/opt/xos/synchronizers/vsg-hw/model_policies"
+sys_dir: "/opt/xos/synchronizers/vsg-hw/sys"
 models_dir: "/opt/xos/synchronizers/vsg-hw/models"
+logging:
+  version: 1
+  handlers:
+    console:
+      class: logging.StreamHandler
+  loggers:
+    'multistructlog':
+      handlers:
+          - console
+      level: DEBUG
diff --git a/xos/synchronizer/vsg-hw-synchronizer.py b/xos/synchronizer/vsg-hw-synchronizer.py
index 22ec365..337472d 100755
--- a/xos/synchronizer/vsg-hw-synchronizer.py
+++ b/xos/synchronizer/vsg-hw-synchronizer.py
@@ -21,9 +21,13 @@
 import sys
 from xosconfig import Config
 
-config_file = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__)) + '/vsg_hw_config.yaml')
+base_config_file = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__)) + '/config.yaml')
+mounted_config_file = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__)) + '/mounted_config.yaml')
 
-Config.init(config_file, 'synchronizer-config-schema.yaml')
+if os.path.isfile(mounted_config_file):
+    Config.init(base_config_file, 'synchronizer-config-schema.yaml', mounted_config_file)
+else:
+    Config.init(base_config_file, 'synchronizer-config-schema.yaml')
 
 observer_path = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__)),"../../synchronizers/new_base")
 sys.path.append(observer_path)