diff --git a/config.go b/config.go
index bbc3579..d0c5c7f 100644
--- a/config.go
+++ b/config.go
@@ -79,6 +79,7 @@ func readConfigFile(filename string) error {
 		log.Log(EVENT, "config new hypervisors", h.pb.Hostname)
 	}
 
+	var total int
 	// initialize values for each droplet
 	for _, pbd := range me.cluster.Droplets {
 		d := findDroplet(pbd.Hostname)
@@ -90,7 +91,9 @@ func readConfigFile(filename string) error {
 		d.pb = pbd
 		me.droplets = append(me.droplets, d)
 		log.Log(EVENT, "config new droplet", d.pb.Hostname, d.pb.StartState, d.pb.PreferredHypervisor)
+		total += 1
 	}
+	log.Log(EVENT, "Total Droplet count:", total)
 
 	return nil
 }
diff --git a/main.go b/main.go
index 42b8950..b90ce59 100644
--- a/main.go
+++ b/main.go
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ func main() {
 	cfgfile()
 
 	// sanity check the droplets
-	checkDroplets()
+	checkDroplets(false)
 
 	// ok tracks if all the libvirt xml files imported ok
 	var ok bool = true
diff --git a/validate.go b/validate.go
index 337422d..12370b8 100644
--- a/validate.go
+++ b/validate.go
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ import (
 	"go.wit.com/log"
 )
 
-func checkDroplets() bool {
+func checkDroplets(dump bool) bool {
 	// uuid map to check for duplicates
 	var umap map[string]string
 	umap = make(map[string]string)
@@ -57,13 +57,17 @@ func checkDroplets() bool {
 			macs[n.Mac] = d.Uuid
 		}
 	}
+	log.Println("validated okay: no duplicate MAC addr")
+	log.Println("validated okay: no duplicate UUID")
 
-	for u, hostname := range umap {
-		log.Println("uuid:", u, "hostname:", hostname)
-	}
+	if dump {
+		for u, hostname := range umap {
+			log.Println("uuid:", u, "hostname:", hostname)
+		}
 
-	for mac, uuid := range macs {
-		log.Println("mac:", mac, "uuid", uuid, "hostname:", umap[uuid])
+		for mac, uuid := range macs {
+			log.Println("mac:", mac, "uuid", uuid, "hostname:", umap[uuid])
+		}
 	}
 
 	return false