Bonus guide: CLBoss

CLBoss is an automated manager for CLN nodes. It’s capable of automatically opening channels to useful nodes, acquiring inbound capacity through boltz swaps, rebalancing existing channels and setting competitive forwarding fees. Read more about it here.

Difficulty: Easy

Status: Tested v3

Table of contents

Introduction
Requirements
Installation
Dependencies
Compilation
Configuration
Restart Service

Introduction

CLBoss - an automated CLN node management tool. This guide shows how to install and setup an existing CLN node with CLBoss plugin.

Requirements

Installation

We will download, install and setup CLBoss on your RaspiBolt CLN node. CLBoss is a plugin that we will place into /data/lightningd-plugins-available/ and load via CLN’s configuration file.

Dependencies

As “admin”, install required dependencies to compile CLBoss’s source code.

$ sudo apt install -y build-essential pkg-config libev-dev \
                    libcurl4-gnutls-dev libsqlite3-dev dnsutils

Switch back to user “lightningd”.
```
$ sudo su - lightningd
```

Download latest version and untar it to CLN’s plugin folder /data/lightningd-plugins-available.

$ cd /data/lightningd-plugins-available
$ wget https://github.com/ZmnSCPxj/clboss/releases/download/v0.12/clboss-0.12.tar.gz
$ tar xfv clboss-0.12.tar.gz
$ cd clboss-0.12

Compilation

Compile it.
```
$ ./configure
$ make
```

Configuration

Add the plugin to CLN config.
```
$ nano /data/lightningd/config
```

Append this line to end of file:

plugin=/data/lightningd-plugins-available/clboss-0.12/clboss

Restart Service

As “admin”, reload CLN configuration by restarting the service:
```
$ sudo systemctl restart lightningd.service
```
Check if it’s running.
```
$ sudo tail -f /data/lightningd/cl.log
```

It should output log entry infos like these:

INFO    plugin-clboss: clboss 0.12
INFO    plugin-clboss: ChannelFeeManager: zerobasefee: allow
INFO    plugin-clboss: New block at xxxxxx
INFO    plugin-clboss: Started.

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