A few questions about monitoring masternodes.

MrZilch

MrZilch

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Hey guys im pretty new to all this. I have set up a masternode just the other day and it seems to be running fine. I have been using the dash ninja dot pl web site to see if my masternode is staying active etc.

I have a couple of questions about that web site.

  • can someone please explain what the daemon monitoring part is and how to make sense of it. Is that the masternodes that are being used currently??
  • Also the payee block template history (masternode voting concensious) part of the page also. is this the masternodes that have been shown to work fine? sorry please ELI5.
  • Approx how often is a new release of DASH coind released? how often do masternode operators have to update their software on their servers?
  • through my VPS dashboard I can see the bandwidth used by my masternode but is there any way to see what my masternode is up to ? Can I see it mixing? sorry this is prob an idiot question.

any way thanks in advance . Sorry if these questions are a little stupid.
thanks again


zilch
 
MrZilch said:
Hey guys im pretty new to all this. I have set up a masternode just the other day and it seems to be running fine. I have been using the dash ninja dot pl web site to see if my masternode is staying active etc.

I have a couple of questions about that web site.

  • can someone please explain what the daemon monitoring part is and how to make sense of it. Is that the masternodes that are being used currently??
  • Also the payee block template history (masternode voting concensious) part of the page also. is this the masternodes that have been shown to work fine? sorry please ELI5.
  • Approx how often is a new release of DASH coind released? how often do masternode operators have to update their software on their servers?
  • through my VPS dashboard I can see the bandwidth used by my masternode but is there any way to see what my masternode is up to ? Can I see it mixing? sorry this is prob an idiot question.

any way thanks in advance . Sorry if these questions are a little stupid.
thanks again
zilch
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Sometimes the websites can display wrong, another way is to get the information directly from the wallet use this command in debug console
(your IP should be at the end if the masternode has just started)

masternode list

To show the number of masternodes use : masternode count

And if you want to list the masternode votes : masternode list votes

A cool function that no other coin has got, is an active monitoring of potential forks : spork show
 
MrZilch said:
can someone please explain what the daemon monitoring part is and how to make sense of it. Is that the masternodes that are being used currently??
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It indicates which of my dash nodes are up monitoring the network.
This allows you to know if they are in sync, the height and hash of the current blockchain for each (detecting forks for example) and the version they are running.
If this part is weird the rest of the page is probably not very accurate.

MrZilch said:
Also the payee block template history (masternode voting concensious) part of the page also. is this the masternodes that have been shown to work fine? sorry please ELI5.
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No, this shows if every one of my nodes agree on which nodes to pay on each block by getting the getblocktemplate for next block each time.
If you see 100% then everything is fine and all nodes agree. If not, something is not right.
With the reference node this is almost always green (not during a fresh moniroting node startup).

MrZilch said:
Approx how often is a new release of DASH coind released? how often do masternode operators have to update their software on their servers?
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Between releases it is pretty stable, 1 each couple of weeks or every month at much.
Just after a main release, get used to 1 per day.

MrZilch said:
through my VPS dashboard I can see the bandwidth used by my masternode but is there any way to see what my masternode is up to ? Can I see it mixing? sorry this is prob an idiot question.
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As far as I know, the only way to monitor the masternode activity is via the debug.log. No rpc command allows to know that the masternode is doing.
Could be interesting to add something like that in the future...
 
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