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<div class="section" id="node-administration">
<h1>Node administration<a class="headerlink" href="#node-administration" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h1>
<p>When a node is running, it exposes an embedded database server, an embedded web server that lets you monitor it,
you can upload and download attachments, access a REST API and so on.</p>
<div class="section" id="logging">
<h2>Logging<a class="headerlink" href="#logging" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>In the default configuration logs are stored to the logs subdirectory of the node directory and are rotated from time to time. You can
have logging printed to the console as well by passing the <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">--log-to-console</span></code> command line flag. Corda
uses the SL4J logging façade which is configured with the log4j2 binding framework to manage its logging,
so you can also configure it in more detail by writing a custom log4j2 logging configuration file and passing <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">-Dlog4j.configurationFile=my-config-file.xml</span></code>
on the command line as well. The default configuration is copied during the build from <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">config/dev/log4j2.xml</span></code>, or for the test sourceSet from <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">config/test/log4j2.xml</span></code>.</p>
<p>In corda code a logger is typically instantiated via the <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">net.corda.core.utilities.loggerFor</span></code> utility method which will create an SL4J <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">Logger</span></code> with a name based on the type parameter.
Also, available in <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">net.corda.core.utilities</span></code>, are extension methods to take a lazily evaluated logging lambda for trace and debug level, which will not evaluate the lambda if the LogLevel threshold is higher.</p>
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<div class="section" id="database-access">
<h2>Database access<a class="headerlink" href="#database-access" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>The node exposes its internal database over a socket which can be browsed using any tool that can use JDBC drivers.
The JDBC URL is printed during node startup to the log and will typically look like this:</p>
<blockquote>
<div><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">jdbc:h2:tcp://192.168.0.31:31339/node</span></code></div></blockquote>
<p>The username and password can be altered in the <a class="reference internal" href="corda-configuration-file.html"><span class="doc">Node configuration</span></a> but default to username &#8220;sa&#8221; and a blank
password.</p>
<p>Any database browsing tool that supports JDBC can be used, but if you have IntelliJ Ultimate edition then there is
a tool integrated with your IDE. Just open the database window and add an H2 data source with the above details.
You will now be able to browse the tables and row data within them.</p>
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<div class="section" id="monitoring-your-node">
<h2>Monitoring your node<a class="headerlink" href="#monitoring-your-node" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>Like most Java servers, the node exports various useful metrics and management operations via the industry-standard
<a class="reference external" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Management_Extensions">JMX infrastructure</a>. JMX is a standard API
for registering so-called <em>MBeans</em> ... objects whose properties and methods are intended for server management. It does
not require any particular network protocol for export. So this data can be exported from the node in various ways:
some monitoring systems provide a &#8220;Java Agent&#8221;, which is essentially a JVM plugin that finds all the MBeans and sends
them out to a statistics collector over the network. For those systems, follow the instructions provided by the vendor.</p>
<p>Sometimes though, you just want raw access to the data and operations itself. So nodes export them over HTTP on the
<code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">/monitoring/json</span></code> HTTP endpoint, using a program called <a class="reference external" href="https://jolokia.org/">Jolokia</a>. Jolokia defines the JSON
and REST formats for accessing MBeans, and provides client libraries to work with that protocol as well.</p>
<p>Here are a few ways to build dashboards and extract monitoring data for a node:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/logzio/jmx2graphite">JMX2Graphite</a> is a tool that can be pointed to /monitoring/json and will
scrape the statistics found there, then insert them into the Graphite monitoring tool on a regular basis. It runs
in Docker and can be started with a single command.</li>
<li><a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/jmxtrans/jmxtrans">JMXTrans</a> is another tool for Graphite, this time, it&#8217;s got its own agent
(JVM plugin) which reads a custom config file and exports only the named data. It&#8217;s more configurable than
JMX2Graphite and doesn&#8217;t require a separate process, as the JVM will write directly to Graphite.</li>
<li><em>Java Mission Control</em> is a desktop app that can connect to a target JVM that has the right command line flags set
(or always, if running locally). You can explore what data is available, create graphs of those metrics, and invoke
management operations like forcing a garbage collection.</li>
<li>Cloud metrics services like New Relic also understand JMX, typically, by providing their own agent that uploads the
data to their service on a regular schedule.</li>
</ul>
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<h2>Uploading and downloading attachments<a class="headerlink" href="#uploading-and-downloading-attachments" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>Attachments are files that add context to and influence the behaviour of transactions. They are always identified by
hash and they are public, in that they propagate through the network to wherever they are needed.</p>
<p>All attachments are zip files. Thus to upload a file to the ledger you must first wrap it into a zip (or jar) file. Then
you can upload it by running this command from a UNIX terminal:</p>
<div class="highlight-shell"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>curl -F <span class="nv">myfile</span><span class="o">=</span>@path/to/my/file.zip http://localhost:31338/upload/attachment
</pre></div>
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<p>The attachment will be identified by the SHA-256 hash of the contents, which you can get by doing:</p>
<div class="highlight-shell"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>shasum -a <span class="m">256</span> file.zip
</pre></div>
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<p>on a Mac or by using <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">sha256sum</span></code> on Linux. Alternatively, the hash will be returned to you when you upload the
attachment.</p>
<p>An attachment may be downloaded by fetching:</p>
<div class="highlight-shell"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>http://localhost:31338/attachments/DECD098666B9657314870E192CED0C3519C2C9D395507A238338F8D003929DE9
</pre></div>
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<p>where DECD... is of course replaced with the hash identifier of your own attachment. Because attachments are always
containers, you can also fetch a specific file within the attachment by appending its path, like this:</p>
<div class="highlight-shell"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>http://localhost:31338/attachments/DECD098666B9657314870E192CED0C3519C2C9D395507A238338F8D003929DE9/path/within/zip.txt
</pre></div>
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<div class="section" id="uploading-interest-rate-fixes">
<h2>Uploading interest rate fixes<a class="headerlink" href="#uploading-interest-rate-fixes" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>If you would like to operate an interest rate fixing service (oracle), you can upload fix data by uploading data in
a simple text format to the <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">/upload/interest-rates</span></code> path on the web server.</p>
<p>The file looks like this:</p>
<div class="highlight-kotlin"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span># Some pretend noddy rate fixes, for the interest rate oracles.
LIBOR 2016-03-16 1M = 0.678
LIBOR 2016-03-16 2M = 0.655
EURIBOR 2016-03-15 1M = 0.123
EURIBOR 2016-03-15 2M = 0.111
</pre></div>
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<p>The columns are:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Name of the fix</li>
<li>Date of the fix</li>
<li>The tenor / time to maturity in days</li>
<li>The interest rate itself</li>
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