Onboarding

onboarding process follow all the steps on this page to verify you are ready to onboard your validator! after you have the validator running for at least 1 hour, please follow steps 2 6 to ensure you are ready to onboard and start validating transactions! check htop to see if your cpu cores are active (meaning validator is running) check the current slot solana slot run your mon sh script and verify you are above the slot listed in 2 run catchup sh script to verify you are staying in pace with the blockchain ie 0 slot(s) behind (us 12345 them 12345) and watch for 5 minutes grab the needed info below and submit onboarding form with your ip address, hostname, validator id, and vote id using the button below use xand user find your validator id pubkey cli xandeum keygen pubkey /validator keypair json find your vote account pubkey cli xandeum keygen pubkey /vote keypair json find your public ip address with a suitable method, here are two dig dig +short myip opendns com @resolver1 opendns com curl curl https //ipinfo io/ip/ find your hostname cli hostname please take a moment to grab your public ip address, hostname, validator pubkey and vote pubkey submit to labs using this form! please consider allowing us to whitelist your ip address for hardware monitoring (setup later in zabbix installation docid\ x1ltqa8zayke8yuwdb1sr ) by answering yes to the last question on the form check out more validator commands docid\ v7ngnfjbcrgiv exobzb0