Miscellaneous

Execute Commands Running Docker

In order to interact with the node’s CLI commands, you need to be authenticated. This means that you need to access a shell within the Chainlink node’s running container first. You can obtain the running container’s NAME by running:

docker ps

The output will look similar to:

CONTAINER ID        IMAGE                     COMMAND                  CREATED             STATUS              PORTS                              NAMES
436882efd51d        smartcontract/chainlink   "./chainlink-launche…"   33 minutes ago      Up 21 minutes       6688/tcp, 0.0.0.0:6688->6688/tcp   chainlink

The last item, chainlink, is the name of the running container (using --name chainlink in your docker run command will give you a common name). Accessing a shell for this container is accomplished by running:

docker exec -it chainlink /bin/bash

This changes the prompt to something similar to:

root@436882efd51d:~#

You can now log in by running:

chainlink admin login

You will be prompted to enter your API Email and Password, and if successful, the prompt will simply appear again. You can check that you are authenticated by running:

chainlink jobs list

If no jobs have been added, you will receive the following output, otherwise, the list of added jobs will be returned:

╔ Jobs
╬════╬════════════╬════════════╬═══════╬
║ ID ║ CREATED AT ║ INITIATORS ║ TASKS ║
╬════╬════════════╬════════════╬═══════╬

Transfer funds from node wallet.

To transfer funds from the node wallet to another address, use the following CLI command:

chainlink txs create <amount> <your-cl-node-address> <send-to-address>

This method is the preferred way to interact with your node wallet. Using other methods to manually interact with the node wallet can cause nonce issues.

Change your API password

In order to change your password, you first need to log into the CLI by running:

chainlink admin login

Use your API email and old password in order to authenticate.

Then run the following in order to update the password:

chainlink admin chpass

It will ask for your old password first, then ask for the new password and a confirmation.

Once complete, you should see a message “Password updated.”

Multi-user and Role Based Access Control (RBAC)

See the Roles and Access Control page.

Importing a Keystore

If you haven’t run the node before and want to import a key you can use the following command, where ./keystore.json is the path to the keystore file of your account.

chainlink local import ./keystore.json

If there is already a key in your database and you want to import another key, you will need to make sure that the same password unlocks all accounts.

Full example in detached mode

cd ~/.chainlink-sepolia && docker run --restart=always  -p 6688:6688 -d --name sepolia-primary -v ~/.chainlink-sepolia:/chainlink -it --env-file=.env smartcontract/chainlink:1.0.0 node start -p /chainlink/.password