diff --git a/build_lxc.sh b/build_lxc.sh
index 787c4bd..c1ddd95 100755
--- a/build_lxc.sh
+++ b/build_lxc.sh
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
+
 # Configurable params
 BRIDGE=${BRIDGE:-br0}
 CONTAINER=${CONTAINER:-STACK}
@@ -49,9 +50,13 @@ if [ -d /cgroup/$CONTAINER ]; then
     cgdelete -r cpu,net_cls:$CONTAINER
 fi
 
+
 # Warm the base image on first install
 CACHEDIR=/var/cache/lxc/natty/rootfs-amd64
 if [ ! -d $CACHEDIR ]; then
+    # by deleting the container, we force lxc-create to re-bootstrap (lxc is
+    # lazy and doesn't do anything if a container already exists)
+    lxc-destroy -n $CONTAINER
     # trigger the initial debootstrap
     lxc-create -n $CONTAINER -t natty -f $LXC_CONF
     chroot $CACHEDIR apt-get update
diff --git a/files/dash_settings.py b/files/dash_settings.py
index d467da8..6472f82 100644
--- a/files/dash_settings.py
+++ b/files/dash_settings.py
@@ -61,14 +61,8 @@ 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 = []
+# We use nixon to embed instead of external monitoring links
+EXTERNAL_MONITORING = []
 
 # Uncomment the following segment to silence most logging
 # django.db and boto DEBUG logging is extremely verbose.