I’m trying to establish a big amount of harvesters, connecting them to one farmer in the same LAN. All the harvester nodes have the same HW configuration so I can just get everything set up (including the harvester) on one harverster and then mass-mirror the system SSDs to the others, for quick demployment.
However, there’s a tricky part–each harvester requires a unique harvester private key for the farmer to tell them from each other. In my understanding this harvester private key is generated when Chia is installed & first initiated. Therefore, I will have to leave Chia uninstalled on the system mirror, and manually install Chia & do all the harvester configuration on each harvester node, which is huge amount of work.
I’m wondering if I can simplify this process by, for example:
- Pre-install Chia on the system mirror, and then DELETE the harvester private key file so it (in my guess) will be automatically generated on the first “chia init” command? Will such generated private keys be unique on each node, or it will just be the same as it was on the system mirror?
- Is it possible to make a powershell script so as to finish the harvester settings on one click? (The harvesters are on Windows for maintenance reasons) I’m new at this and not sure if a script could do all the stuff (change config, replace CA, etc.)