Witness Essentials: CLI (Update) by therealwolf

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witness-category · @therealwolf · (edited)
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Witness Essentials: CLI (Update)
![witness_essentials.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmbo45tA92NVsTqvuJip9YvfVNtyeNkQCitajdFs6BRWaX/witness_essentials.png)

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`Witness Essentials: CLI` received an update, which includes:

- New Command: `rotate`
- Private active-key input popup if not added to config.json, but needed for the specific action

---

Github: https://github.com/witness-essentials/cli
PR: https://github.com/witness-essentials/cli/pull/4

---

<h2>What is Witness Essentials?</h2>

`Witness Essentials` is a collection of important tools for witnesses. `Witness Essentials: CLI` includes multiple commands for witnesses to quickly manage their signing-keys & witness data.

Github Organization: https://github.com/witness-essentials

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<h2>Getting Started</h2>

<h3>Installation</h3>

1.) Clone Repository and install packages
```
git clone https://github.com/witness-essentials/cli.git
cd cli
npm i # or yarn
```
---
2.) Edit your Config
```
cp configs/config.example.json configs/config.json
nano configs/config.json
```
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<h4> Config Explanation</h4>

- `WITNESS`: Witness account name.

- `SIGNING_KEYS`: Add **all** signing keys here as pairs. As of HF20, you can now also update your witness with your current private signing key. This is also necessary for updating new properties.

```
 [{ "public": "STM7..", "private": "5JS.." }, { "public": "STM5..", "private": "5PD.." }, { .. }]
```

- `ACTIVE_KEY` (Optional):  As of HF20, the private active key is optional and/or only needed if the witness is disabled and you want to enable it again. If it's needed, it can also be entered as argument once the script asks for it.


<h3>Commands</h3>

There are 4 commands you can run. If you want to use a specific `RPC_NODE`, then you can use it as an optional argument.

- Active a specific signing-key
```
npm run enable <SIGNING_KEY> <OPTIONAL_RPC_NODE>
```
---
- Disable witness directly
```
npm run disable <OPTIONAL_RPC_NODE>
```
---
- Change witness parameters
```
npm run update <OPTIONAL_RPC_NODE>
```
---
- Rotate between signing-keys (in config)
```
npm run rotate <OPTIONAL_RPC_NODE>
```
---

I hope my fellow witnesses find this useful.

All the best,
Wolf

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@emrebeyler · (edited)
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Hello @therealwolf!

Great updates. `witness-essentials` looks sharp, as always.

Private active key pop-up was needed since storing it in the config may not be the securest way to handle witness enable operations.

On a minor note, regarding the `npm run command <OPTIONAL_RPC_NODE>` syntax, in CLI apps, we use `-a` or `--argument` to specify optional arguments by [convention](https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Argument-Syntax.html). It's not a big thing but it still bugs me out as a CLI nerd. :)

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