Install Endpoint Nodes

Download

You can download the latest version of the EN on Download page.

Installation

Linux Archive Distribution

The archive file consists of the executable binary and the configuration file structured as follows.

Note: Do NOT alter the file structure or file name. If you change it, the node may not function correctly.

- bin

|- ken

|- kend

- conf

|- kend.conf

File Name	File Description
bin/ken	EN executable file
bin/kend	EN start/termination script file
conf/kend.conf	EN configuration file

The installation is the uncompression of the downloaded package where you want to install the package.

$ tar zxf ken-vX.X.X-linux-amd64.tar.gz

Or,

$ tar zxf ken-baobab-vX.X.X-linux-amd64.tar.gz

Note: it is recommended that the uncompressed directory ken-linux-amd64/bin path should be added to the environment variable $PATH to run the ken and kend globally. As an example,

$ export PATH=$PATH:~/downloaded/path/ken-linux-amd64/bin

The other sections assume that the path is added to the variable.

RPM Distribution (RHEL/CentOS/Fedora)

You can install the downloaded RPM file with the following yum command.

$ yum install kend-vX.X.X.el7.x86_64.rpm

Or,

$ yum install kend-baobab-vX.X.X.el7.x86_64.rpm

Install from Kaia Yum Repo

Alternatively, you can install kend from the Kaia Yum repo, run:

$ sudo curl -o /etc/yum.repos.d/kaia.repo https://packages.kaia.io/config/rhel/7/kaia.repo && sudo yum install kend

Installed Location

The installed files are located as follows.

File Name	Location
ken	/usr/bin/ken
kend.conf	/etc/kend/conf/kend.conf

Configuration

The EN configuration is to create a data directory and to set up the environment variables on the configuration file kend.conf.

1. Create the EN data directory.
2. Configure the EN with kend.conf.

EN Data Directory Creation

Considering the fact that the size of Kaia blockchain data keeps increasing, it is recommended to use a big enough storage. You need to create the directory on your desired path.

$ sudo mkdir -p /var/kend/data

Update the Configuration File

Configuration File Location:

• For the archive distribution, the config directory location defaults to $INSTALL_PATH/ken-linux-amd64/conf/.
• For the package distribution, the config directory defaults to /etc/kend/conf/.

Add Data Directory

You should update the the data directory environment variable $DATA_DIR on the configuration file kend.conf.

DATA_DIR=/var/kend/data

(Optional) Download Chaindata Snapshot

Synching from the genesis block is time-consuming. You may use Chaindata Snapshot to skip the Full Sync process.

Startup the EN

You can start or stop the Endpoint Node using the following commands.

start

$ kend start

Starting kend: OK

stop

$ kend stop

Shutting down kend: Killed

status

$ kend status

kend is running

Testing the Installation

It is time to check that Endpoint Node is successfully installed and it is working as expected after installation.

Process Status

It is possible to check the status of EN's process using the status commands systemctl and kend.

systemctl

systemctl is installed along with the RPM, and the status of EN can be checked as follows.

$ systemctl status kend.service

● kend.service - (null)

Loaded: loaded (/etc/rc.d/init.d/kend; bad; vendor preset: disabled)

Active: active (running) since Wed 2019-01-09 11:42:39 UTC; 1 months 4 days ago

Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)

Process: 29636 ExecStart=/etc/rc.d/init.d/kend start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)

Main PID: 29641 (ken)

CGroup: /system.slice/kend.service

└─29641 /usr/local/bin/ken --networkid 1000 --datadir /kend_home --port 32323 --srvtype fasthttp --metrics --prometheus --verbosity 3 --txpool.global...

Jan 09 11:42:39 ip-10-11-2-101.ap-northeast-2.compute.internal systemd[1]: Starting (null)...

Jan 09 11:42:39 ip-10-11-2-101.ap-northeast-2.compute.internal kend[29636]: Starting kend: [ OK ]

Jan 09 11:42:39 ip-10-11-2-101.ap-northeast-2.compute.internal systemd[1]: Started (null).

You can check the current status such as Active: active (running) in the example above.

kend

kend is installed along with the package, and the status of EN can be checked as follows.

$ kend status

kend is running

Logs

The log is stored in kend.out file located in the path defined in the LOG_DIR field of the kend.conf file. When the node works properly, you can see that each block is imported per second as follows.

Example:

$ tail kend.out

INFO[02/13,07:02:24 Z] [35] Commit new mining work number=11572924 txs=0 elapsed=488.336µs

INFO[02/13,07:02:25 Z] [5] Imported new chain segment blocks=1 txs=0 mgas=0.000 elapsed=1.800ms mgasps=0.000 number=11572924 hash=f46d09…ffb2dc cache=1.59mB

INFO[02/13,07:02:25 Z] [35] Commit new mining work number=11572925 txs=0 elapsed=460.485µs

INFO[02/13,07:02:25 Z] [35] 🔗 block reached canonical chain number=11572919 hash=01e889…524f02

INFO[02/13,07:02:26 Z] [14] Committed address=0x1d4E05BB72677cB8fa576149c945b57d13F855e4 hash=1fabd3…af66fe number=11572925

INFO[02/13,07:02:26 Z] [5] Imported new chain segment blocks=1 txs=0 mgas=0.000 elapsed=1.777ms mgasps=0.000 number=11572925 hash=1fabd3…af66fe cache=1.59mB

INFO[02/13,07:02:26 Z] [35] Commit new mining work number=11572926 txs=0 elapsed=458.665µs

INFO[02/13,07:02:27 Z] [14] Committed address=0x1d4E05BB72677cB8fa576149c945b57d13F855e4 hash=60b9aa…94f648 number=11572926

INFO[02/13,07:02:27 Z] [5] Imported new chain segment blocks=1 txs=0 mgas=0.000 elapsed=1.783ms mgasps=0.000 number=11572926 hash=60b9aa…94f648 cache=1.59mB

INFO[02/13,07:02:27 Z] [35] Commit new mining work

Queries

ken console

Kaia provides a CLI client: ken console. Another way of using the client is to connect to the process via IPC (inter-process communication). The IPC file kaia.ipc is located in the data directory on an EN.

Please execute the following command and check out the result.

$ ken attach /var/kend/data/kaia.ipc

Welcome to the Kaia JavaScript console!

instance: Kaia/vX.X.X/XXXX-XXXX/goX.X.X

datadir: /var/kend/data

modules: admin:1.0 debug:1.0 governance:1.0 istanbul:1.0 klay:1.0 miner:1.0 net:1.0 personal:1.0 rpc:1.0 txpool:1.0

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You can check the usable commands on API Document

The useful APIs to check the status of EN:

• kaia.blockNumber (to get the latest block number)
• net.peerCount (to get the number of the connected Kaia nodes currently)

kaia.blockNumber

You can get the latest block number to see if blocks are propagated properly.

> kaia.blockNumber

11573819

net.peerCount

> net.peerCount

14

The above command line returns the number of nodes that the EN connects to.