Validator Node Compliance Requirements

The following document outlines compliance requirements for SKALE Network nodes. Failure to follow these requirements will result in a node forfeiting bounty for each month that it’s not in compliance. Please be sure to follow the entire proper setup and backup procedures described in Validator Testnet Upgrade documentation to ensure your node is operating as intended.

Compliance Requirements

The following compliance requirements are required to ensure all nodes meet a standard of performance.

Compliance requirements may be reviewed and modified at any given time.

General Check

Node operators can use this general PASS/FAIL check to confirm whether a node meets the compliance requirements.

https://skale-analytics.skalelabs.com/#/mainnetstatus/<NODE_ID>;

Wallet Balances

  • >= 0.5 Rinkeby ETH in self-recharging validator wallet (should be >= NODES_NUMBER * 0.5)

  • >= 1 Rinkeby ETH in each node wallet

Hardware

  • A Linux x86_64 machine

  • >= 8 physical cores physical cores (benchmark AWS t2.2xlarge)

  • >= 32GB RAM GB RAM

  • >= 100 GB root storage (not tested at the moment, recommended)

  • >= separate not mounted block device - 200GB GB attached and unformatted non-boot storage (Note that separate not mounted block device - 200GB GB storage results in < separate not mounted block device - 200GB GB actual physical storage)

  • >= 16GB Swap GB swap

Test: http://YOUR_SKALE_NODE_IP:3009/status/hardware

Example response:

{"data": {"cpu_total_cores": 8, "cpu_physical_cores": 8, "memory": 33675792384, "swap": 67350032384, "system_release": "Linux-5.4.0-1045-aws", "uname_version": "#47~18.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Tue Apr 13 15:58:14 UTC 2021", "attached_storage_size": 214748364800}, "error": null}

Networking

  • Valid SSL certificates for each node.

    • The certificate file should be issued in PEM format, issued by a trusted authority, and contain a full certificate chain.

    • Certificate should always be renewed to avoid expiry.

  • Don’t touch machine firewall (iptables installed by skale node software automatically sets machine firewall rules), external VPC or networking firewall ensure Ports 80, 443, 3009, 8080, 9100, and 10000–18192, and ICMP IPv4 should not be closed by external firewall.

Servers

SGXWallet

  • 1 SGX server for up to 5 SKALE nodes (not tested, but required)

  • >= 6 cores (not tested, but required)

  • >= 8GB RAM (not tested, but required)

Test: http://YOUR_SKALE_NODE_IP:3009/status/sgx

Example response: {"data": {"status": 0, "status_name": "CONNECTED", "sgx_wallet_version": "1.9.0"}, "error": null}%

Geth Endpoint

  • Must be actual Geth node, not Infura or other service providers

  • 1 Geth server for every ⇐ 5 SKALE Nodes (not tested, but required)

  • Geth v1.13.5 (Berlin hard-fork support not tested, but required)

Test: http://YOUR_SKALE_NODE_IP:3009/status/endpoint

Example Response: {"data": {"block_number": 8728517, "syncing": false, "trusted": true, "client": "Geth/v1.10.2-stable-c2d2f4ed/linux-amd64/go1.16"}, "error": null}%

Networking

  • Check key-cert pair validity using http://YOUR_SKALE_NODE_IP:3009/status/ssl

  • Test ssl certificates using skale ssl check

  • Don’t touch machine firewall (iptables installed by skale node software automatically sets machine firewall rules), external VPC or networking firewall ensure Ports open on 80, 311, 443, 3009, 8080, 9100, 10000–18192, and ICMP IPv4 (in other words, not closed by an external firewall).

Software

Latest Testnet software versions are defined here: * Versions * https://github.com/skalenetwork/skale-network/tree/master/releases

  • Node software versions must be updated to the latest Testnet requirements

  • SGXWallet software versions must be updated to the latest Testnet requirements

  • SGX container should be up and running and should be responding to health check request

  • FILEBEAT_HOST should be defined in .env and the filebeat container should be up and running. The node must be sending logs to elastic server

  • All skale-containers are always running on the node

    • filebeat

    • skale-admin

    • bounty

    • transaction-manager

    • nginx

    • skale-api

    • celery

    • schain (if selected for SKALE Chain)

Test: http://YOUR_SKALE_NODE_IP:3009/status/meta-info

Example response: {"data": {"version": "1.1.0", "config_stream": "1.2.1", "docker_lvmpy_stream": "1.0.1-stable.1"}, "error": null}%

Test: http://YOUR_SKALE_NODE_IP:3009/status/schain-containers-versions

Example response: {"data": {"skaled_version": "3.5.12-stable.1", "ima_version": "1.0.0-develop.148"}, "error": null}%

Test: http://YOUR_SKALE_NODE_IP:3009/status/core

Example response: {"data": [{"image": "skalenetwork/schain:3.5.12-stable.1", "name": "skale_schain_beautiful-al-anz", "state": {"Status": "running", "Running": true, "Paused": false, "Restarting": false, "OOMKilled": false, "Dead": false, "Pid": 21709, "ExitCode": 0, "Error": "", "StartedAt": "2021-04-26T14:49:51.705052477Z", "FinishedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z"}}, …​}

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