p2pool-salvium/docs/CONSOLE_COMMANDS.MD

P2Pool console commands

Command	Description
help	display list of commands
status	display p2pool status
loglevel N	set log level (N can be between 0 and 6)
addpeers L	L is a comma-separated list of IP:port of other p2pool nodes to connect to
droppeers	disconnect all currently connected peers
peers	show all currently connected peers (p2p)
workers	show all currently connected workers (stratum)
bans	show all banned IPs
hosts	show Monero hosts which were configured in the command line
next_host	switch to the next Monero host configured in the command line
outpeers N	set maximum number of outgoing connections (values above 50 are not recommended)
inpeers N	set maximum number of incoming connections (values above 50 are not recommended)
start_mining T	start mining (T is the number of threads to use, must be between 1 and 64)
stop_mining	stop mining
exit	terminate p2pool
version	show p2pool version

Non-interactive console access

It's possible to send console commands via a local TCP connection. For this, you need to enable the API: --data-api api --local-api.

A sample Python script that sends console commands to P2Pool via TCP:

import sys
import socket
import json

with open('api/local/console', 'r') as file:
    data = json.load(file)

s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
s.connect(('127.0.0.1', data['tcp_port']))

command = data['cookie'];
command += sys.argv[1];
command += '\n';

s.sendall(command.encode('utf-8'))
s.close()

Run it in P2Pool's directory: python3 ./p2pool_cmd.py status