After installation

📌 This guide will help you to end the configuration of your node and backup important files.

Congratulation 🎉

As your node is now installed there is one more step remaining to join the mining community. Head to [1](http://nstatus.org) and enter the IP address of your node, press "Submit" A box should appear specifying the wallet address you need to pay the "Generation id fee". Those fee are required by the network since March 2021 in order to protect it from attacks.

Go to your mainnet wallet and pay those fees in order for your node to start. You will need to pay only once per node those fee.

⚠️ It is not possible to use the same wallet on multiple node.

As you have pay this fee it is also important for you to backup your node wallet information in order to be able to re-install your node in case of problems. There are 2 important files to save

wallet.json

wallet.pswd

Linux

Your wallet information files are locate in your nkn-node directory. You can reach this directory using the following command after connecting to your node

cd "$(find / -type d -name "nkn-node" 2>/dev/null)"

Use the nano editor to open the file and save their content

nano wallet.json

nano wallet.pswd

Windows

The wallet files are available in the install directory. Duplicate the files and save them on another disk/computer

File example

wallet.json

{"Version":2,"IV":"","MasterKey":"","SeedEncrypted":"","Address":"","Scrypt":{"Salt":"","N":,"R":,"P":}}

wallet.pswd

GShn!dk§slh6'8DJSù

Generation fee paid?

Head to http://nstatus.org and check your node status, if everything goes well within a few minutes you should see your node starting to synchronize with the network!

The sync can take up to several hours / days regarding your node configuration. Find above a list of your node possible message and their meaning!

NKN Node status

Message
ERROR	Your node isn't started yet. See the error code table above for more informations
WAIT_FOR_SYNCING	Your node is started but needs to sync with the network.
SYNC_STARTED	Your node is started and is now syncing with the network, this sync can take up to multiple days regarding your disk, network, ...
SYNC_FINISHED	Your node is started and have finished to sync with the network
PERSIST_FINISHED	Your node is working and relaying messages in the network, it's mining.

NKN Node error codes

Error code
45022	Generation fee required to start node
45023	ID generation in progress
45024	Database unavailable (most of the time means database optimization or your node running out of space)