Nimiq installer

This repo is to have a automated installer for a nimiq validator or RPC node with full node.

Good to know is that it doesn't user permanent storage because Devnet is frequently restarted.

Mainnet is not yet available!

Hardware requirements

These are based on testnet requirements early on, disk might need be bigger later!

Minimum

• CPU: 1 core
• Memory: 1 GB
• Disk: 20 GB HDD/SSD
• OS: Ubuntu 20.04+

Recommended

• CPU: 2 core
• Memory: 4 GB
• Disk: 80 GB HDD/SSD
• OS: Ubuntu 20.04+

Oneliner

Be aware executing things directly in terminal as root, check the files first!

Full node

curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/maestroi/nimiq-installer/master/setup.sh | bash -s testnet full_node

Validator

Should be activating automatically on the next epoch, check grafana dashboard for logs. Your validator address can be found in the grafana dashboard!

you can always check nimstats.com!

curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/maestroi/nimiq-installer/master/setup.sh | bash -s testnet validator

Private keys!

private keys are located on the node in the following location address.txt, is the important address where your funds are staked on.

/opt/nimiq/validator/secrets

All keys should also be zipped and located in, make sure you backup them!

./root/secrets.zip

Use cloud-config

make sure you tag validator or full node You can use the cloud config for any populair cloud provider to use for startup any node

Monitoring

Login with admin/nimiq by default you can login with your own password after first login. Url for your grafan instance will be http://YOURIP/grafana

We use the following components

• Prometheus
• Grafana
• Node exporter
• Loki
• Promtail

NOTE: You can switch off by setting the variable in the setup.sh file to false or 3rth variable to false.

You can customize any alerts or settings to your liking.

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