Open Source: Auto Switch Your Witness Node In the Event of Failure

My main witness node crashed for no reason when I was asleep around 1.AM midnight.

Thanks for @fancybrothers who notified me on the discord channel. When I got the message, it has been 5 hours and I 've missed 310 blocks.

Sh*t happens!

Thus, I decide to write a tool that monitors the witness node, in case of failure, it will detect and switch to your backup node.

Project: https://github.com/DoctorLai/SteemWitnessAutoSwitch

It is easy to use: you first need to configure:

{
    "account": "Your Steem Witness Account",
    "key": "Your Active Key",
    "signing_keys": [
        "Witness Signing Key 1",
        "Witness Signing Key 2",
        "STM1111111111111111111111111111111114T1Anm"
    ],
    "url": "https://steemyy.com",
    "fee": "3.000 STEEM",
    "interval": 60,
    "period": 360,
    "threshold": 4  
}

Make the last siging key disabled one so it will disable your node in case all your witness nodes are down. I have taken out the code to send a email for notification since it is quite customised to my settings but you can easily add it, the easily way to send a email would be to launch the mail utility.

The default setting is to switch if there are 4 missed blocks in the last 6 minutes. You can adjust if you are outside TOP 20. The interval is the time interval to check if there are new misses.

Last but not least, I would recommend running this using screen or pm2

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Every little helps! I hope this helps!

Steem On!~

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