Sample Witness Initialization and Creation Script

witness-creation-script.sh

# Cryptographic Salt (seed) generation - kli salt
kli salt
# Sample Output -> 
#   0ACrH43dd6hmqrX3-708BFBl

# Setting of required environment variables for sample commands below
export WIT_NAME=witness-01
export WIT_SALT=0ACrH43dd6hmqrX3-708BFBl
export CONFIG_DIR=$HOME/witnesses/witness-01/
export CONFIG_FILE=main/sample-witness-config.json

# Witness Keystore Initialization - kli init
# Assumes 
kli init --nopasscode \
    --name $WIT_NAME \
    --salt $WIT_SALT \
    --config-dir $CONFIG_DIR \
    --config-file main/$WIT_CONFIG_FILE
    
# Additional configuration variables for the witness
export WIT_TCP_PORT=5632
export WIT_HTTP_PORT=5642

# Witness Start without TLS - kli witness start
kli witness start \
    --name $WIT_NAME \
    --alias $WIT_NAME \
    -T ${WIT_TCP_PORT:-5632} \
    -H ${WIT_HTTP_PORT:-5642} \
    --config-dir $CONFIG_DIR \
    --config-file $WIT_CONFIG_FILE
    
    
# And a sample witness configuration file (located above at $HOME/witnesses/witness-01/keri/cf/main/sample-witness-config.json
{
  "dt": "2024-11-29T16:00:00.000000+00:00",
  "witness-01": {
    "dt": "2024-11-29T16:00:00.000000+00:00",
    "curls": [
      "tcp://<my-domain-name-or-IP-address>:5632/",
      "http://<my-domain-name-or-IP-address>:5642/"
    ]
  },
  "iurls": [
  ]
}