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Onboarding Process

Follow All the steps on this page to verify you are ready to onboard your validator!

  1. 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!
  2. Check htop to see if your cpu cores are active (meaning validator is running)
  3. Check the current slot solana slot
  4. Run your mon.sh script and verify you are above the slot listed in 2
  5. 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
  6. 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


Find your Vote Account Pubkey

CLI


Find your Public IP Address with a suitable method, here are two:

dig
curl


Find your hostname

CLI


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) by answering yes to the last question on the form.

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Updated 25 Mar 2024
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