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Node Commands

The following sections summarize the commands of Astar nodes you need for different cases. For any more details, you can consult help page:

astar-collator --help

Collator

Binary service file

[Unit]
Description=Astar Collator

[Service]
User=astar
Group=astar

ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/astar-collator \
--pruning archive \
--collator \
--name {COLLATOR_NAME} \
--chain astar \
--base-path /var/lib/astar \
--trie-cache-size 0 \
--telemetry-url 'wss://telemetry.polkadot.io/submit/ 0' \

Restart=always
RestartSec=10

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Docker

docker run -d \
--name astar-container \
-u $(id -u astar):$(id -g astar) \
-p 30333:30333 \
-v "/var/lib/astar/:/data" \
staketechnologies/astar-collator:latest \
astar-collator \
--pruning archive \
--collator \
--name {COLLATOR_NAME} \
--chain astar \
--base-path /data \
--trie-cache-size 0 \
--telemetry-url 'wss://telemetry.polkadot.io/submit/ 0' \

Archive node as RPC endpoint

Binary

[Unit]
Description=Astar Archive node

[Service]
User=astar
Group=astar

ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/astar-collator \
--pruning archive \
--rpc-cors all \
--name {NODE_NAME} \
--chain astar \
--base-path /var/lib/astar \
--rpc-external \
--rpc-methods Safe \
--rpc-max-request-size 1 \
--rpc-max-response-size 1 \
--telemetry-url 'wss://telemetry.polkadot.io/submit/ 0' \

Restart=always
RestartSec=10

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Docker

docker run -d \
--name astar-container \
-u $(id -u astar):$(id -g astar) \
-p 30333:30333 \
-p 9944:9944 \
-v "/var/lib/astar/:/data" \
staketechnologies/astar-collator:latest \
astar-collator \
--pruning archive \
--rpc-cors all \
--name {NODE_NAME} \
--chain astar \
--base-path /data \
--rpc-external \
--rpc-methods Safe \
--rpc-max-request-size 1 \
--rpc-max-response-size 1 \
--telemetry-url 'wss://telemetry.polkadot.io/submit/ 0' \

Specific cases command args

EVM management

Enable EVM medhods on RPC node

--enable-evm-rpc

Enable EVM debug log

--ethapi=debug

Enable EVM tracing log

--ethapi=txpool,debug,trace
--wasm-runtime-overrides /var/lib/astar/wasm

External monitoring

--prometheus-external

Full command documentation

To see full node command binary embedded documentation, please use help option.

$ ./astar-collator -h

Node process will be launched with Parachain ID 2006 for Astar, 2007 for Shiden, 1000 for Shibuya. Parachain ID info for each network can be found here.