Testing the Core Cell
It is time to check that Core Cell is successfully installed and it is working as expected after installation.
It is possible to check the status of CN/PN's process using the status commands
systemctl
and kcnd/kpnd
.systemctl
is installed along with the RPM and the status of CN/PN can be checked as follows.$ systemctl status kcnd.service
● kcnd.service - (null)
Loaded: loaded (/etc/rc.d/init.d/kcnd; 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/kcnd start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Main PID: 29641 (kcn)
CGroup: /system.slice/kcnd.service
└─29641 /usr/local/bin/kcn --networkid 1000 --datadir /kcnd_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 kcnd[29636]: Starting kcnd: [ 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 above example.kcnd
(or kpnd
) is installed along with the package and the status of CN/PN can be checked as follows.$ kcnd status
kcnd is running
The log is stored in
kcnd.out
(or kpnd.out
) file located in the path defined in the LOG_DIR
field of the kcnd.conf
(or kpnd.conf
) file. When the node works properly, you can see that each block is created per second as follows.Example:
$ tail kcnd.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 number=11572927 txs=0 elapsed=483.436µs
Klaytn provides a CLI client:
kcn console
(or kpn console
). However, a CN/PN may disable the RPC interface for the client due to the security reason. Another way of using the client is to connect to the process via IPC (inter-process communication).The IPC file
klay.ipc
is located in the data
directory on a CN/PN.Please execute the following command and check out the result.
In case of a CN,
$ ken attach /var/kend/data/klay.ipc
Welcome to the Klaytn JavaScript console!
instance: Klaytn/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
>
In case of a PN,
$ kpn attach /var/kpnd/data/klay.ipc
Welcome to the Klaytn JavaScript console!
instance: Klaytn/vX.X.X/XXXX-XXXX/goX.X.X
coinbase: 0x67f68fdd9740fd7a1ac366294f05a3fd8df0ed40
at block: 11573551 (Wed, 13 Feb 2019 07:12:52 UTC)
datadir: /var/kpnd/data
modules: admin:1.0 debug:1.0 istanbul:1.0 klay:1.0 miner:1.0 net:1.0 personal:1.0 rpc:1.0 txpool:1.0
>
The useful APIs to check the status of a CN/PN:
klay.blockNumber
(to get the latest block number)net.peerCount
(to get the number of the connected Klaytn nodes currently)
You can get the latest block number to see if blocks are created (for CNs) or propagated (for CNs and PNs) properly based on your node type.
> klay.blockNumber
11573819
> net.peerCount
14
The above command line returns a different value based on the node type.
- CN: the number of connected CNs + the number of connected PNs.
- PN: the number of connected CNs + the number of connected PNs + the number of connected ENs.
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