diff --git a/files/dash_settings.py b/files/dash_settings.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..20442e5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/files/dash_settings.py
@@ -0,0 +1,94 @@
+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
diff --git a/stack.sh b/stack.sh
index 13b750a..51ddcc5 100755
--- a/stack.sh
+++ b/stack.sh
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ DEST=/opt
 # Set the destination directories for openstack projects
 NOVA_DIR=$DEST/nova
 DASH_DIR=$DEST/dash
+NIXON_DIR=$DEST/dash/openstack-dashboard/dashboard/nixon
 GLANCE_DIR=$DEST/glance
 KEYSTONE_DIR=$DEST/keystone
 NOVACLIENT_DIR=$DEST/python-novaclient
@@ -114,6 +115,8 @@ git_clone https://github.com/cloudbuilders/keystone.git $KEYSTONE_DIR
 git_clone https://github.com/cloudbuilders/noVNC.git $NOVNC_DIR
 # django powered web control panel for openstack
 git_clone https://github.com/cloudbuilders/openstack-dashboard.git $DASH_DIR
+# add nixon, the iframing dashboard extension 
+git clone https://github.com/jakedahn/nixon.git $NIXON_DIR
 # python client library to nova that dashboard (and others) use
 git_clone https://github.com/cloudbuilders/python-novaclient.git $NOVACLIENT_DIR
 # openstackx is a collection of extensions to openstack.compute & nova 
@@ -155,7 +158,8 @@ if [[ "$ENABLED_SERVICES" =~ "dash" ]]; then
     sudo touch $DASH_DIR/openstack-dashboard/quantum/client.py
 
     cd $DASH_DIR/openstack-dashboard
-    sudo cp local/local_settings.py.example local/local_settings.py
+    sudo cp $DIR/files/dash_settings.py local/local_settings.py
+
     dashboard/manage.py syncdb
 
     # create an empty directory that apache uses as docroot