Here are most of the key checks that can be done:
0. Check "masternode list-conf" from controller wallet. Ensure the status says Enabled.
1. Check "masternode list-conf" from controller wallet. Ensure the IP address matches up with yout masternode's IP address.
2. Check "masternode status" from masternode wallet. Ensure it says "Masternode successfully started".
3. Check "masternode status" from masternode wallet. Ensure the IP address is matches up to the one in your controller wallet's masternode.conf for that MN instance
4. Check "masternode status" from masternode wallet. Ensure TXID matches the one in your controller wallet's masternode.conf TXID for that MN instance.
5. Check "masternode status" from masternode wallet. Ensure Pubkey matches the correspnding receiving address with the 10K DNET for that MN instance.
6. Check masternode's darknet.conf file. Ensure the privkey in the darknet.conf file matches the one in the masternode.conf of the controller wallet for that MN instance.
7. Although I assume it is, the privkey mentioned above needs to be the one generated via "masternode genkey" from your controller wallet.
8. Check "masternode list" output from both your masternode & controller. Just confirm that the last TXID matches up to ensure they are same.
9. Check "masternode list" output from both your controller. Either find (or grep) the output and see if your masternode's TXID is listed.
Thanks for this check list, its very handy. Everything on it checks out and no MN payments are showing on the blockchain. When I got back from my weekend away on Tuesday I opened the wallet and received a bunch of payouts for the nodes I have. I started an Obfuscation with 500 DNET and a short while later discovered that my nodes swap files ran over 312% (they have been generously increased). I think this caused a block chain error so I deleted all the necessary files and did a -rescan on all of them activating when synced (which was surprisingly fast), they have been up ever since with only 1 payment on MN1 in roughly 70 hours.
I really need to work out if this is a problem at my end or there is just a really long delay. I have a few friends that are considering investing in a few nodes and I want to show them it running smoothly and need to know the delay from activation so they can calculate ROI with a few restarts a month included. I personally came here as a geek who loves playing with technology rather than an investor, in the time I have been here I have started to realise that DNET might actually be a good long term investment and have sparked a lot of interest because it is a genuinely interesting project with a solid dev team and awesome community. A mixture of crypto enthusiasts, server admins and non technical people looking to get into crypto are interested. I mentioned some of the more ambitious in-wallet plans to some coders and their eyes lit up. I have even been speaking to non technical friends who are interested in me setting up and managing nodes for a cut of the MN payments and a small setup fee.
I need to get things running smoothly for myself for at least a few weeks/month before I start bringing people in. All of the people I have spoken to have skills that the community could benefit from coders, artists, designers, web developers, writers, event managers etc so I would like them to have the best possible experience.
EDIT: Took a while but MN payments are coming in.