Tweaking Federated Node (containerized) settings

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In this topic I’ll post about various “unofficial” ways Counterparty Federated Node can be tweaked, initially with focus on data management because dealing multiple copies of large data is both expensive and time-consuming.

##Example 1: Bitcoin Core with addrindex on different host

When you install Federated Node it will install and start all services. If you already have Bitcoin Core addrindex somewhere (maybe on the host, or on LAN), you may want to change your Federated Node’s Bitcoin configuration.

To do that, you want to stop Bitcoin (fednode stop bitcoin, on mainnet) and then change the configuration of your services that use Bitcoin Core addrindex. That depends on what you installed. The counterblock configuration includes counterparty and counterblock server, so I modify these two:

• backend-connect in config/counterblock/server.testnet.conf and config/counterparty/server.testnet.conf (testnet example). Point it to your Bitcoin Core addrindex server’s IP and make sure the RPC port on that IP is accessible.
• backend-user and backend-password: change these to reflect configuration of your existing node

Now you can start these services and use fednode tail <SERVICENAME> to see whether they’re working as expected.

With Counterwallet you’d have to change its configuration file as well.

##Example 2: MongoDB on different host

Similarly to Bitcoin Core, MongoDB can take up precious space and if you have an instance on your LAN or host, you can use that.

In counterblock.server.conf simply change mongodb-connect=<LAN-IP> and restart your counterblock service.

Note that if multiple Fed Node instances use the same back end Mongo database server at the same time, it may create unpredictable results.

##Example 3: counterparty server on another host

This is possible as well and the procedure is similar to the other two above.

Counterparty doesn’t take up a lot of space (0.5 - 1.5 GB, testnet and mainnet) but it takes time to reparse and catch up, so it’s still good to be able to reuse existing server and data.

Counterwallet and Counterblock both use Counterparty API so their configuration files would have to be changed.

[sangaria]

Hello dear.

I set up my own Counterparty “Federated Node” system, on Ubuntu20.04.
As all requirements Hardware / OS requirements.
But I have got some problems.
I tried with the guide https://counterparty.io/docs/federated_node/

I have got this result from fednode tail counterpaty-testnet.

please help me.

[jdogresorg]

You only need to post one request for support on a specific topic… this is the 3rd thread I am seeing you create asking the same question.