Remote Proxy is a feature mainly intended for large scale mining operations. Remote Proxy is when a dedicated computer runs the Remote Agent application and connects to a large number of miners and report the status back to Awesome Miner.

When designing a large system, the load on the Awesome Miner main application can be reduced by setting up one or several computers as Remote Proxies for making the majority of all network connections to the miners. A Remote Proxy is a standard Awesome Miner Remote Agent installation that has been configured to be used as a Remote Proxy in Awesome Miner. This feature is currently only supported for External Miners (management of ASIC miners)

Each Remote Proxy instance can be used to manage up to 10,000 miners. Remote Proxy can either run on Windows or Linux.

Installation

Download and run the Awesome Miner Remote Agent Installer.

Configuration

The Remote Agent application is configured via the Awesome Miner main application. To configure a Managed Host to be used as a Remote Proxy, open the Properties dialog of the host via the Options dialog, Managed Hosts section, and enable Use as Remote Proxy as illustrated below.

Note: In case the Remote Proxy is running on Linux, check the box for Remote Agent for Linux as well.

Move existing miners to a Remote Proxy

This section is only applicable in case the miners are already listed in Awesome Miner. By default all miners either don't have any Remote Proxy assigned at all, or use Local to also indicate that no Remote Proxy is used. There are two ways of assigning an External Miner to a Remote Proxy.

• Open the Properties for the External Miner and go to the Remote Proxy section
• Right click on one or many External Miners in the list of miners in the main window of Awesome Miner, and make the change as illustrated below

Optional: Automatic miner discovery

See the article about Automatic miner discovery for more details about how to setup automatic discovery of new miners on the network. This feature can also be used in combination with the MAC address identification feature where Awesome Miner keeps track of all miners based on their MAC address to handle scenarios where the IP address of a miner is being changed.