Admin Agent Startup and Settings

Admin Agent

This agent is able to establish connections with other agents, and is able to issue credentials. To have these capabilities, it must be initialized with these flags:

aca-py start --inbound-transport http 0.0.0.0 8020 --outbound-transport http --endpoint http://0.0.0.0:8020 --label IssuerAgent_Regulator --seed AgentRegulator000000000000000000 --admin 0.0.0.0 8021 --admin-insecure-mode --auto-ping-connection --auto-accept-invites --auto-accept-requests --auto-respond-credential-offer --auto-respond-credential-proposal --auto-respond-credential-request --auto-store-credential --auto-respond-presentation-request --auto-verify-presentation --wallet-key secret --wallet-name RegulatorAgent --wallet-type indy --auto-provision --genesis-url http://0.0.0.0:9000/genesis

⚠️ Warning ⚠️

Remember to register the Agent's seed on the VON-Network before deploying the Agent

The following table explains the meaning of each flag used at agent startup.

Boot_Parameters	Example	Description
aca-py start		Start command
--inbound-transport	http 0.0.0.0 8020	This is the protocol, address and port your ACA-py instance will be reachable at for other ACA-py instances - required
--outbound-transport	http	This is the protocol that your ACA-py instance will use to communicate to other instances - required
--endpoint	http://0.0.0.0:8020	This is the URL at which your ACA-py instance will be available for other ACA-py instances to reach. This URL will be used for establishing connections. The protocol address and port should be the same as for --inbound-transport
--label	IssuerAgent_Regulator	The name that you give this ACA-py instance
--seed	Alice000000000000000000000000000	You can create a public DID via the VON-network webserver, it will tell you the seed for the DID you registered.
--admin	0.0.0.0 8021	This is the address and port you will be able to acess the Swagger documentation for ACA-PY instance
--admin-insecure-mode		Allows you to use the admin web server without api-key. Only for test
--auto-ping-connection	Connection parameters between agents	Sends a ping message after establishing the connection to mark it as ‘active’.
--auto-accept-invites	Connection parameters between agents	Automatic acceptation of invites, which results in the sending of a connection request
--auto-accept-requests	Connection parameters between agents	Connection request, which will be automatically accepted, which results in response after which the connection is established
--wallet-key	secret	This is the key that is required to access your wallet
--wallet-name	RegulatorAgent	The name that you give this wallet instance
--wallet-type	indy	This instructs libindy to create a wallet for you that can communicate with an Indy ledger
--genesis-url	http://0.0.0.0:9000/genesis	Points to the VON-network webserver where the genesis file can be found. Other command-line arguments can be used to point to a file on disk for example.
--auto-provision		The provision command is there to separate the creation of wallets. For development a new command-line parameter has been added that automatically provisions a wallet in case it does not exist