nanopool-slackbot

Slackbot for Nanopool to watch workers and report mining info

Overview

nanopool-slackbot is designed to monitor workers on a Nanopool wallet address, sending alerts when workers are reported to be 'offline' and when new workers come online

Install

pip install virtualenv
virtualenv env
source env/bin/activate
pip install slackclient

Configure

Slack

1. Create a bot named @nanopoolbot and save the API token

export BOT_TOKEN="<slack api token>"

2. Run the following Python script to get the bot's user ID for BOT_ID

python print_bot_id.py

Slackbot

1. Copy run.sh.example to run.sh

cp run.sh.example run.sh

2. Edit run.sh and fill in the following variables

export WALLET_ID="0xADDRESS"
export OFFLINE_MIN=30
export BOT_ID="<from print_bot_id.py>"
export BOT_TOKEN="<slack api token>"

Running

bash run.sh

Recommended to use supervisor if you want a long running service that is fault tolerant

Supervisord example conf

[program:nanopoolbot]
command=/opt/nanopoolbot/run.sh   ; the program (relative uses PATH, can take args)
numprocs=1                        ; number of processes copies to start (def 1)
directory=/opt/nanopoolbot        ; directory to cwd to before exec (def no cwd)
autostart=true                    ; start at supervisord start (default: true)
autorestart=true                  ; restart on exit
stopasgroup=true                  ; send stop signal to the UNIX process group (default false)
user=nanopoolbot                  ; setuid to this UNIX account to run the program
stderr_logfile=/var/log/nanopoolbot.err.log
stdout_logfile=/var/log/nanopoolbot.out.log

Source

Thanks to https://www.fullstackpython.com/blog/build-first-slack-bot-python.html for the great starting point/guide