diff --git a/src/main/resources/floodlightdefault.properties b/src/main/resources/floodlightdefault.properties
index d95ba0a5c21a14fd14a5f03433275eb4a34d3fc7..47d2ae4c164061064f6aae682f6a5993321f51fe 100644
--- a/src/main/resources/floodlightdefault.properties
+++ b/src/main/resources/floodlightdefault.properties
@@ -18,7 +18,6 @@ net.floodlightcontroller.perfmon.PktInProcessingTime,\
 net.floodlightcontroller.ui.web.StaticWebRoutable,\
 net.floodlightcontroller.loadbalancer.LoadBalancer,\
 org.sdnplatform.sync.internal.SyncManager,\
-org.sdnplatform.sync.internal.SyncTorture,\ 
 net.floodlightcontroller.devicemanager.internal.DefaultEntityClassifier
 org.sdnplatform.sync.internal.SyncManager.authScheme=CHALLENGE_RESPONSE
 org.sdnplatform.sync.internal.SyncManager.keyStorePath=/etc/floodlight/auth_credentials.jceks
diff --git a/src/main/resources/logback-test.xml b/src/main/resources/logback-test.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e3f2a4fcf21aaf13d7faa25ccbc97da54459a7c5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/main/resources/logback-test.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+<configuration scan="true">
+  <appender name="STDOUT" class="ch.qos.logback.core.ConsoleAppender">
+    <encoder>
+      <pattern>%d{HH:mm:ss.SSS} %level [%logger{20}:%thread] %msg%n</pattern>
+    </encoder>
+  </appender>
+  <appender name="EV_WARN_ERR" class="net.floodlightcontroller.debugevent.DebugEventAppender">
+  </appender>
+  <root level="INFO">
+    <appender-ref ref="STDOUT" />
+    <appender-ref ref="EV_WARN_ERR" />
+  </root>
+  <logger name="org" level="WARN"/>
+  <logger name="LogService" level="WARN"/> <!-- Restlet access logging -->
+  <logger name="net.bigdb" level="INFO"/>
+  <logger name="net.floodlightcontroller" level="INFO"/>
+  <logger name="org.sdnplatform" level="INFO"/>
+</configuration>