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-#
-# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
-# or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
-# distributed with this work for additional information
-# regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
-# to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (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.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-#
-# 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.
-#
-
-
-# management server clustering parameters, change cluster.node.IP to the machine IP address
-# in which the management server is running
-cluster.node.IP=127.0.0.1
-cluster.servlet.port=9090
-region.id=1
-
-# CloudStack database settings
-db.cloud.username=cloud
-db.cloud.password=cloud
-db.root.password=12345
-db.cloud.host=localhost
-db.cloud.driver=jdbc:mysql
-db.cloud.port=3306
-db.cloud.name=cloud
-
-# CloudStack database tuning parameters
-db.cloud.maxActive=250
-db.cloud.maxIdle=30
-db.cloud.maxWait=10000
-db.cloud.autoReconnect=true
-db.cloud.validationQuery=SELECT 1
-db.cloud.testOnBorrow=true
-db.cloud.testWhileIdle=true
-db.cloud.timeBetweenEvictionRunsMillis=40000
-db.cloud.minEvictableIdleTimeMillis=240000
-db.cloud.poolPreparedStatements=false
-db.cloud.url.params=prepStmtCacheSize=517&cachePrepStmts=true&prepStmtCacheSqlLimit=4096&sessionVariables=sql_mode='STRICT_TRANS_TABLES,NO_ZERO_IN_DATE,NO_ZERO_DATE,ERROR_FOR_DIVISION_BY_ZERO,NO_ENGINE_SUBSTITUTION'&serverTimezone=UTC
-
-# usage database settings
-db.usage.username=cloud
-db.usage.password=cloud
-db.usage.host=localhost
-# It's not guaranteed that using a different DB provider than the one from the regular cloud DB will work
-db.usage.driver=jdbc:mysql
-db.usage.port=3306
-db.usage.name=cloud_usage
-
-# usage database tuning parameters
-db.usage.maxActive=100
-db.usage.maxIdle=30
-db.usage.maxWait=10000
-db.usage.autoReconnect=true
-db.usage.url.params=serverTimezone=UTC
-
-# Simulator database settings
-db.simulator.username=cloud
-db.simulator.password=cloud
-db.simulator.host=localhost
-# It's not guaranteed that using a different DB provider than the one from the regular cloud DB will work
-db.simulator.driver=jdbc:mysql
-db.simulator.port=3306
-db.simulator.name=simulator
-db.simulator.maxActive=250
-db.simulator.maxIdle=30
-db.simulator.maxWait=10000
-db.simulator.autoReconnect=true