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+#!/usr/bin/python
+
+# ---------------------------------
+# This is the configuration file used by the Syndicate observer.
+# It is a well-formed Python file, and will be imported into the
+# observer as a Python module.  This means you can run any config-
+# generation code here you like, but all of the following global 
+# variables must be defined.
+# ---------------------------------
+
+# URL to the Syndicate SMI.  For example, https://syndicate-metadata.appspot.com
+SYNDICATE_SMI_URL="http://localhost:8080"
+
+# If you are going to use OpenID to authenticate the Syndicate sliver daemon,
+# this is the OpenID provider URL.  It is currently used only to generate 
+# identity pages for users, so you can put whatever you want here for now.
+SYNDICATE_OPENID_TRUSTROOT="http://localhost:8081"
+
+# This is the observer's user account on Syndicate.  You must create it out-of-band
+# prior to using the observer, and it must be an admin user since it will
+# create other users (i.e. for slices).
+SYNDICATE_OPENCLOUD_USER="jcnelson@cs.princeton.edu"
+
+# This is the password for the observer to authenticate itself to Syndicate.
+SYNDICATE_OPENCLOUD_PASSWORD="nya"
+
+# If the observer uses public-key authentication with Syndicate, you will 
+# need to identify the absolute path to its private key here.  It must be 
+# a 4096-bit PEM-encoded RSA key, and the Syndicate observer's user account
+# must have been given the public key on activation.
+SYNDICATE_OPENCLOUD_PKEY=None
+
+# This is the location on disk where Syndicate observer code can be found, 
+# if it is not already in the Python path.  This is optional.
+SYNDICATE_PYTHONPATH="/root/syndicate/build/out/python"
+
+# This is the location of the observer's private key.  It must be an absolute
+# path, and refer to a 4096-bit PEM-encoded RSA key.
+SYNDICATE_PRIVATE_KEY="/opt/planetstack/syndicate_observer/syndicatelib_config/pollserver.pem"
+
+# This is the master secret used to generate secrets to seal sensitive information sent to the 
+# Syndicate sliver mount daemons.  It is also used to seal sensitive information
+# stored to the Django database.  
+# TODO: think of a way to not have to store this on disk.  Maybe we feed into the
+# observer when it starts up?
+SYNDICATE_OPENCLOUD_SECRET="e4988309a5005edb8ea185f16f607938c0fb7657e4d7609853bcb7c4884d1c92"
+
+# This is the default port number on which a Syndicate Replica Gateway
+# will be provisioned.  It's a well-known port, and can be the same across
+# slivers, since in OpenCloud, an RG instance only listens to localhost.
+SYNDICATE_RG_DEFAULT_PORT=38800
+
+# This is the absolute path to the RG's storage driver (which will be automatically
+# pushed to slivers by Syndicate).  See https://github.com/jcnelson/syndicate/wiki/Replica-Gateways
+SYNDICATE_RG_CLOSURE=None
+
+# This is the port number the observer listens on for GETs from the Syndicate sliver mount 
+# daemons.  Normally, the oserver pushes (encrypted) commands to the daemons, but if the 
+# daemons are NAT'ed or temporarily partitioned, they will pull commands instead.
+SYNDICATE_HTTP_PORT=65321
+
+# This is the path to the logfile for the observer's HTTP server.
+SYNDICATE_HTTP_LOGFILE="/tmp/syndicate-observer.log"
+
+# This is the number of seconds to wait for pushing a slice credential before timing out.
+SYNDICATE_HTTP_PUSH_TIMEOUT=60
+
+# This is the port number the Syndicate sliver mount daemons listen on.  The observer will 
+# push commands to them on this port.
+SYNDICATE_SLIVER_PORT=65322
+
+# If true, print verbose debug messages.
+DEBUG=True