🖥️For Windows Users

📺 Follow the video for detailed guidance

Steps:

• Download the WindowsScript.bat file. Simply click on the WindowsScript.bat file in order to download it.
• Open your Windows Powershell terminal, enter “&” and then Drag and drop the WindowsScript.bat file into the terminal and press enter.

• In the “Enter .pem file path”, Drag and drop the .pem file into the terminal and press enter.

• In the “Enter the Validator key zip file path”, Drag and drop the validator_keys.zip file into the terminal and press enter.

• In the “Enter AWS public IPv4 and external DNS hostname: ”, to enter your public IPv4 and external DNS hostname. For example,

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Note: Steps to find public IPv4 and external DNS hostname.

• Go to the stack you have created(“cluster-creation-stack”) .
• In the output section you’ll find the IPv4 and external DNS hostname, as mentioned above.

💡 Note: If you get this error follow these instructions , To see the video reference of below instructions please watch this tutorial video and steps are mentioned below.

💡 If you get this error follow these instructions

• Right click on your .pem file, go to Properties, Security.

• In Security, go to Advanced and then Disable Inheritance, on the pop-up, choose “Remove all inherited permissions from this object”.

• Now Click on Add, then click on “Select a Principal”, and then click on “Advanced”.

• Now click on “Find Now” on Right, and then in Search Result

1. Choose, “Admin” and press Ok, press Ok again and in Basic Permissions, choose: “Read” and press Ok.

• Now, In Advanced Security settings, and in Permission entries, review the permissions, Click on Apply and press Ok.

• In Properties, press Ok again.

• Now run the WindowsScript.bat again.

• Now the terminal will ask Are you sure you want to continue connecting, type “yes” and press enter. Now you will be logged into your AWS instance.

• Now, enter the following command for wallet creation and importing.

bash <(curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/launchnodes/ValidatorNodeProduct/main/Scripts/TekuValidator.sh)

• Now, enter the number of validator nodes.

• When prompted "Enter the validator_keys password:", enter your validator keys password (enter the same password that you have set at the time of key creation and press enter). As you are typing/pasting the password in terminal It'll not be visible to you but It's getting typed in the backend.

• Now you should be able to see "Happy Staking, from Launchnodes..." on your screen. This means that it was successful.