Part 10 - Reboot and Validate Services

  • Reboot your node
  • Check services start at boot


DescriptionCommand
1If everything has worked through parts 1 - 10, reboot your node to ensure all services start at boot
sudo reboot
2

Allow your node to boot and SSH to validate the services, replace 'zenops' with your own username and <FQDN> with your own Fully-Qualified Domain Name, remove <brackets>

ssh zenops@<FQDN>
3

Windows users, load your last session in PuTTY to login using your SSH key pair

4

Check the status of both zend and the tracker, both should return active (running) if after running the status command you are not returned to a command prompt, exit the status details by pressing CTRL + c


sudo systemctl status -n 0 zend zentracker


Example Output

zenops@node01:~$ sudo systemctl status -n 0 zend zentracker
zend.service - Zen daemon
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/zend.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: active (running) since Thu 2018-05-24 22:31:30 EDT; 34s ago
Process: 21612 ExecStart=/usr/bin/zend -daemon -pid=/home/zenops/.zen/zend.pid (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Main PID: 21615 (zend)

Tasks: 16

Memory: 810.0M

CPU: 18.963s

CGroup: /system.slice/zend.service

└─21615 /usr/bin/zend -daemon -pid=/home/zenops/.zen/zend.pid

zentracker.service - Zen node daemon installed on ~/nodetracker/

Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/zentracker.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: active (running) since Thu 2018-05-24 21:34:27 EDT; 1h 1min ago
Main PID: 19648 (node)

Tasks: 10

Memory: 38.9M

CPU: 4.110s

CGroup: /system.slice/zentracker.service

└─19648 /usr/local/bin/node /home/zenops/nodetracker/app.js

5

Check the status of your node on the tracking website, use the search box and enter the FQDN of your node


https://supernodes.zensystem.io/nodes/all << Super Nodes


Select your node and check the following values (top left of the detail page) are true and up respectively - example shown to the right

Part 11 of 11 - Reboot and Validate Services



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