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https://github.com/everstake/ton-validation

Small utility to automate TON validator requests for continious validation and getting rewards
https://github.com/everstake/ton-validation

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Small utility to automate TON validator requests for continious validation and getting rewards

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## Small utility to automate validator requests and get rewards

Please refer to [Validator HOWTO Guide](https://test.ton.org/Validator-HOWTO.txt)



#### WARNING! Highly experimental. Use at your own risk!

Tested on Ubuntu 18.04, using [this commit](https://github.com/ton-blockchain/ton/commit/ba76f1404ef06b044fcbdc2d35a5ac7b7d01cad0).



> Please backup and remove your db.json to start with a clean one before running v1.3



### Required:



* Python 3 (Tested on 3.6.8)

* working Full-node that completed sync

* configured lite-client and validator-engine-console

* default keys and wallet (as shown in *Validator HOWTO Guide*) stored along with executables

* executables (fift, lite-client, validator-engine-console)

* configured env variable $FIFTPATH

* recover-query.boc which you can obtain by running (`fift -s recover-stake.fif`)

* wallet smart contract in the masterchain (*-1 identifier*)

* sufficient amount of Grams for validation purposes (20k will result in continuous process of validation in testnet)

* [tonos-cli v0.1.29](https://github.com/tonlabs/tonos-cli/releases/tag/v0.1.29) - Tested to work



### Installation steps:

```

#set env variable in .bashrc file using export, here user=ton

export FIFTPATH=/home/ton/ton-sources/ton/crypto/fift/lib:/home/ton/ton-sources/ton/crypto/smartcont

export BETTER_EXCEPTIONS=1

sudo apt install python3-pip

sudo apt install python3-venv

python3 -m venv env

if you use bash -> source env/bin/activate

#After that your promt will change

#Place requirements.txt and validator.py in directory with executables

pip install -r requirements.txt

#Run and check the output

python validator.py

#To exit run

deactivate

```

#### How to run:



Place validator.py along with executables and run



***python validator.py***



### Important notes



Backup your node config because the script makes a lot of keys.



We recommend to check the output and the source code.



As seqno of your wallet smartcontracts changes - old *.boc* files are useless, so we don't keep them.



If everything is OK, these files will be periodically overwritten:

- return-stake.boc

- validator-to-sign.bin

- validator-query.boc

- finish.boc



#### Current dir listing before running the script:

![DIR listing](img/dir_before.png)



#### Running the script:

![DIR listing](img/script_run.png)



#### Current dir listing after running the script:

![DIR listing](img/dir_after.png)



#### Notes on automation



Run the script with *watch* for a couple of days to test it:



`(env) ton@server /m/o/T/b/950e2> watch -n 1800 -d "python validator.py"`



When you have checked everything you can proceed and configure running the script with cron:



`*/3 * * * * cd /path/to/DIR && env/bin/python validator.py > /dev/null 2>&1`



Refer to a good article about [cron and python](https://monicagranbois.com/blog/python/cron-and-python-virtualenv/).



#### Logs 



Script logs the results of its works to **last.log** file and to separate directories regarding anything about current elections.



Also, it stores stats and keys in DB file.



#### DB file



The db file is a json generated by [TinyDB](https://github.com/msiemens/tinydb).



You can parse it by running  `cat db.json | jq -r '._default' | jq '[.[]]'`  to get readable output.



See how to get some graphs and good-looking charts at **[everstake/ton-helpers](https://github.com/everstake/ton-helpers)**