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# Sui

#### 1. Installing the required packages

```
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
    tzdata \
    libprotobuf-dev \
    ca-certificates \
    build-essential \
    libssl-dev \
    libclang-dev \
    libpq-dev \
    pkg-config \
    openssl \
    protobuf-compiler \
    git \
    clang \
    cmake


curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh
source $HOME/.cargo/env
```

\####2. Clone the sui repository

```
git clone https://github.com/MystenLabs/sui.git
cd sui
```

\###3. Create a of the configuration template

```
cp crates/sui-config/data/fullnode-template.yaml fullnode.yaml
```

\###4. Downloading genesis.blob for Testnet

```
curl -fLJO https://github.com/MystenLabs/sui-genesis/raw/main/testnet/genesis.blob
```

\###5. Edit the main configuration of the SUI node

```
nano fullnode.yaml
```

Example node config (adjust paths as needed):

yaml

```
db-path: "/opt/sui/db"

network-address: "/dns/localhost/tcp/8080/http"
metrics-address: "0.0.0.0:9184"
json-rpc-address: "0.0.0.0:9000"
enable-event-processing: true

p2p-config:
  listen-address: "0.0.0.0:8084"
  seed-peers:
    - address: /dns/yto-tnt-ssfn-01.testnet.sui.io/udp/8084
      peer-id: 2ed53564d5581ded9b6773970ac2f1c84d39f9edf01308ff5a1ffe09b1add7b3
    - address: /dns/yto-tnt-ssfn-00.testnet.sui.io/udp/8084
      peer-id: 6563732e5ab33b4ae09c73a98fd37499b71b8f03c27b5cc51acc26934974aff2
    - address: /dns/nrt-tnt-ssfn-00.testnet.sui.io/udp/8084
      peer-id: 23a1f7cd901b6277cbedaa986b3fc183f171d800cabba863d48f698f518967e1
    - address: /dns/ewr-tnt-ssfn-00.testnet.sui.io/udp/8084
      peer-id: df8a8d128051c249e224f95fcc463f518a0ebed8986bbdcc11ed751181fecd38
    - address: /dns/lax-tnt-ssfn-00.testnet.sui.io/udp/8084
      peer-id: f9a72a0a6c17eed09c27898eab389add704777c03e135846da2428f516a0c11d
    - address: /dns/lhr-tnt-ssfn-00.testnet.sui.io/udp/8084
      peer-id: 9393d6056bb9c9d8475a3cf3525c747257f17c6a698a7062cbbd1875bc6ef71e
    - address: /dns/mel-tnt-ssfn-00.testnet.sui.io/udp/8084
      peer-id: c88742f46e66a11cb8c84aca488065661401ef66f726cb9afeb8a5786d83456e

genesis:
  genesis-file-location: "/opt/sui/config/genesis.blob"

authority-store-pruning-config:
  num-latest-epoch-dbs-to-retain: 6
  epoch-db-pruning-period-secs: 10800
  num-epochs-to-retain: 3
  max-checkpoints-in-batch: 10
  max-transactions-in-batch: 1000
  pruning-run-delay-seconds: 60

state-archive-read-config:
  - object-store-config:
      object-store: "S3"
      bucket: "mysten-testnet-archives"
      no-sign-request: true
      aws-region: "us-west-2"
      object-store-connection-limit: 20
    concurrency: 5
    use-for-pruning-watermark: false

```

\###6. Create folders & files to target

```
sudo mkdir -p /opt/sui/db
sudo mkdir -p /opt/sui/config
sudo chmod -R 777 /opt/sui

cp sui/fullnode.yaml /opt/sui/config/
cp sui/genesis.blob /opt/sui/config/
```

\###7. Building and installing the Sui node binary

```
cd sui
cargo build --release
./target/release/sui-node --version

sudo cp ./target/release/sui-node /usr/local/bin/
sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/sui-node
```

\###8. Downloading snapshot
\
Note that at the time the node was installed, 657 epoch was current.

```
export PATH=$PATH:/root/sui/target/release
sudo cp /root/sui/target/release/sui-tool /usr/local/bin/
sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/sui-tool

sui-tool download-formal-snapshot \
    --epoch 657 \
    --genesis "/opt/sui/config/genesis.blob" \
    --network testnet \
    --path "/opt/sui/db" \
    --num-parallel-downloads 50 \
    --no-sign-request
```

The process of downloading the snapshot took me about 2 hours.

Setting up and running the Sui Full Node as a systemd service

\###9. Create a systemd service file for Sui Node

```
sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/sui-node.service
```

Paste the following:

```
[Unit]
Description=Sui Full Node
After=network.target

[Service]
User=root
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/sui-node --config-path /opt/sui/config/fullnode.yaml
Restart=always
LimitNOFILE=1000000

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
```

\###10. Reload & Enable & Start

```
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable sui-node
sudo systemctl start sui-node
```

Useful commands
\
Retrieve and monitor Sui Node metrics:

```
curl 127.0.0.1:9184/metrics 2>/dev/null | grep -E \
    "^last_executed_checkpoint|\ 
    ^highest_synced_checkpoint|\ 
    ^last_committed_round|\ 
    ^current_round|\ 
    ^highest_received_round|\ 
    ^certificates_created|\ 
    ^uptime"
```

View logs:

```
journalctl -u sui-node -f -o cat
```


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