How to create a Stake Pool using a script (Windows)

October 16, 2019, We recommend that you wait for installers which we are developing before attempting to install and use jormungandr on Windows. These instructions will likely not work for you. If you are still keen to run jormungandr on windows you can try using git bash which allows you to enter Linux commands found in the Linux articles on this site but we do not support the use of Git Bash here.  

Overview

Scenario prerequisites:

1. the local node is started and synced to the blockchain/testnet
2. you already have an Account address with enough funds to pay for the transaction fees (> 12000 Lovelace)
3. the above account will be used as the owner of the new Stake Pool

Network scenario

1. download/copy the createStakePool.sh and send-certificate.sh scripts in the same location as the node-config.yaml file
2. execute the createStakePool.sh script with the required parameters
3. the script will automatically create the `node-secret.yaml` file

How to create a Stake Pool using script (Windows)

Windows users should use PowerShell and not CMD for executing these commands.

1. Download the createStakePool.sh and send-certificate.sh scripts

1.1 Open the scripts section from jormungandr-qa​_​_​_​_ github repository --> https://github.com/input-output-hk/jormungandr-qa/tree/master/scripts

1.2 Locate the createStakePool.sh script on the left menu and right click on it; Select Save link as option from the right-click menu (as below);

1.3 Save the script in the same location where you saved the node configuration (node-config.yaml) file

1.4 Repeat steps 1.2 and 1.3 for the send-certificate.sh script

2. Execute the createStakePool.sh script

2.1 Open GitBash in the same location where you have the script and the node-config.yaml file

• open the folder where you saved the files, right-click on the screen (on an empty space) and select GitBash Here --> Gitbash will open;

Execute the commands from the next steps in GitBash (from the location where the script is saved).

2.2 Check the parameters required by the script

$ bash createStakePool.sh --help
usage: createStakePool.sh <REST-LISTEN-PORT> <ACCOUNT_SK>
    <REST-PORT>   The REST Listen Port set in node-config.yaml file (EX: 3101)
    <SOURCE-SK>   The Secret key of the Source address

2.3 Execute the script

Notes:

• In the below command, for the --host parameter, make sure to use the same value you used in node configuration (node-config.yaml) for the rest/listen parameter.
• Update the value of the second parameter with the Private Key of your own Account address

bash createStakePool.sh 3101 ed25519e_sk1nqh6fk0dm9p3tgvqcgt9had3ajn5pcmme04qp256p3g7tahxd9q9j4wgn2n250huxc5t38u0yjd9rtalrzae9t7xcwzhcz98jf4hamsgfmydk

2.4 Check the results

If everything is fine and you did not receive any error, the last line of the script is your Stake Pool ID. Now you can check if your stake pool id appears in the list of available stake pools by executing the below command.

jcli rest v0 stake-pools get --host "http://127.0.0.1:3101/api"

Next, you can start the node as a 'leader candidate', using the `--secret node-config.yaml` parameter. The `node-config.yaml` file was automatically created in the same location as `createStakePool.sh`.