[Awesome Miner] - Powerful Windows GUI to manage and monitor up to 200000 miners - page 217.

trucobit

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Quote from: patrike on January 25, 2019, 09:00:54 AM

Quote from: trucobit on January 25, 2019, 08:00:19 AM

Of course PAtrike, I suggest, although it may be insistent, here the boss and decide is you.

But I see incongruous, to my way of working that I have to change the Profit in the pool and then again in the Coins tab.

I await your solution or your no solution, I adapt to what you program.

The good news is that the next release will have a new setting for applying the pool profit factor to the coins on the Coins tab. This behavior will be configurable in the Options dialog, Statistics Settings section.

If you have more than one pool for a coin, the pool with the lowest profit factor will be used. Once the new version is available, please give it a try to see if it works like you had in mind.

This is what I needed, now I just have to continue measuring pool / coins, add it in the currency pool and activating the new option, it is applied in Coins. It was just that. Thanks, it does not make sense that there are 2 profits at a time.

danielocdh

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Quote from: patrike on January 24, 2019, 07:46:30 AM

Quote from: danielocdh on January 24, 2019, 01:05:24 AM

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Quote from: danielocdh on January 18, 2019, 10:07:34 PM

Any way to stop awesome miner from creating firewall rules for every mining software?
I don't want everyone on my LAN to have access to the mining software on my miners.

Local connections usually work even if you don't allow the program, is there any particular reason for awesome miner to create firewall rules?

There are currently no setting to prevent this behavior in Awesome Miner.

Awesome Miner is registering the mining software as an allowed application. Mining software must be able to make outgoing pool connections and also open an API port where Awesome Miner connects for monitoring information. If an application isn't registered to the Windows firewall it may be blocked and Windows almost always shows a dialog where the user must accept the application.

If you try to start almost any mining software outside of Awesome Miner (a software that Awesome Miner didn't register already) you will see that Windows Defender Firewall will show a warning dialog - unless Defender is completely disabled.

In Windows Defender Firewall you also have a setting called "Block all incoming connections, including those in the list of allowed apps". That might be the one you are looking for in your specific scenario.

As for the inbound rules, I understand is good to have them to prevent the popups but there is no need to have them as "allow the connection" rules, because the monitoring connections are local we could have them as "block the connection" rules and the monitoring would still work correctly(as far as I have tested over the years) without allowing other LAN devices access to the mining software.

The "Block all incoming connections, including those in the list of allowed apps" might seem enough for most use cases but I have mining computers that serve other content so I need access to some of their ports.

Please consider adding an option so we can decide whether to create the rules as allow or block rules, thank you.

Can this be solved by using the setting to block all incoming connections, but then explicitly configure Windows Defender to open up a few ports that you need?

Even if you only monitor mining software locally, Windows will still complain and show the Blocked dialog when you launch the mining software unless it's an allowed application. This is the reason why Awesome Miner adds the mining software as allowed as it's very difficult to run mining operations without it.

Block all incoming connections takes precedence over any other rule.

I manually changed the allow rules created by awesome miner for the mining software to block rules. Have been mining since I originally asked about this without any issue or popup (picture of my rules linked). The problem is that when new software is added/updated new rules will be created by awesome miner as allowed rules.
https://imgur.com/a/w7YBXdZ

If you make this an option you could just leave the default as it is now(allowed rules), just in case "blocked" rules might break anything for someone.

Thanks for the update.

I've made a quick implementation to support this case. I've introduced a new setting that you can set directly in the Awesome Miner configuration file as I don't want to expose this in the user interface.

1) Once the next version of Awesome Miner is available, install it, run it once and then exit the application.
2) Open the configuration file (%appdata%\AwesomeMiner\ConfigData.xml) and search for "ConfigureWindowsDefenderAllowedApps".
3) Change the property from true to false and save the file.

Thanks, I tried but it showed a popup the first time a mining software ran.
While testing further I found out 2 possible reasons why:
1 When creating a block rule the rule is created with Profile Private(current profile), while when creating an allow rule the rule is created with Profile All.
2 When creating a block rule the rule is added to the registry a couple of seconds after the miner software is launched, while when creating an allow rule the rule is added to the registry a few milliseconds before the miner software is launched.
I didn't test extensively but I'm guessing #1 has something to do with defaults, for #2 my guess is some firewall api limitation or maybe it is not the cause of the issue.
Hopefully you can take another look at it, otherwise I'll just create a script that runs now and then and modifies the rules as needed.
Even that my lan is relatively secure and have trustworthy people connecting to it, I don't want to leave my mining software open.

Thanks again.

The default behavior of Awesome Miner is to add this Allowed Apps rule. In that case things should just work and you shouldn't see any dialogs from Windows Defender. Is that correct according to your observations as well? I don't have any plans to change how these rules are set at the moment, as what Awesome Miner do works very well in a very large number of mining environments out there.

If you use the new property set to false, Awesome Miner will not do anything with the firewall configuration. I assume it's in only in this case you are getting the warnings from Defender? With the automatic configuration disabled in Awesome Miner, you are basically on your own here and you can manually configure (or not configure) the rules as you want.

I'm feeling that I'm failing to communicate what I want to say a lot, sorry about that and thank you for your patience. Maybe you make me nervous Wink

I meant that when configuring ConfigureWindowsDefenderAllowedApps as true the rules (allow rules) are being created with Profile=All, but when configuring ConfigureWindowsDefenderAllowedApps as false the rules(block rules) are being created with Profile=Private, I believe the difference in profile causes the popups to come up when ConfigureWindowsDefenderAllowedApps is set to false.

Fu Ren

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Quote from: patrike on January 25, 2019, 09:44:57 AM

Awesome Miner version 6.1.6

Features
  - A new setting for applying the pool profit factor to the coins on the Coins tab. Can be enabled in the Options dialog, Statistics Settings section.
User interface
  - Performance improvements to the Coins tab when having a large number of coins
  - Added additional coin images
Mining software
  - BMiner 13.2
  - Gminer 1.23
  - TT-Miner 2.1.7
  - XMRig miner 2.10.0 for AMD, nVidia and CPU
Corrections
  - User interface correction to Profit Factor setting in Coin Properties
  - Adjusted exponential factor for calculating revenue of Equihash 96,5 coins
  - The rounding of the BMiner and NBMiner hashrate values was removed
  - BMiner to always use highest prioritized pool when there are several pools available
  - NBMiner command line correction for passing a password after the worker name

Hi Patrike
I just upgraded to this release and my issue with NBminer is corretly solved now, i.e. native miner working ok after logging in to the pool and all the relevant power and price info for GRIN is passed to the dashboard, thanks a lot.

Allo-4ka

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Quote from: patrike on January 25, 2019, 11:24:07 AM

This indicates that the download of the MSI file failed. Can you try the procedure one more time or download it from the web site if it still doesn't work?

Direct link from the site - it's works

patrike

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Quote from: Allo-4ka on January 25, 2019, 10:39:28 AM

Quote from: patrike on January 25, 2019, 09:44:57 AM

Awesome Miner version 6.1.6

Problem when upgrading from 6.1.5 to 6.1.6
http://images2.imagebam.com/38/32/ee/cfd2011103097494.PNG

This indicates that the download of the MSI file failed. Can you try the procedure one more time or download it from the web site if it still doesn't work?

Allo-4ka

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Quote from: patrike on January 25, 2019, 09:44:57 AM

Awesome Miner version 6.1.6

Problem when upgrading from 6.1.5 to 6.1.6
http://images2.imagebam.com/38/32/ee/cfd2011103097494.PNG

patrike

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Awesome Miner version 6.1.6

Features
  - A new setting for applying the pool profit factor to the coins on the Coins tab. Can be enabled in the Options dialog, Statistics Settings section.
User interface
  - Performance improvements to the Coins tab when having a large number of coins
  - Added additional coin images
Mining software
  - BMiner 13.2
  - Gminer 1.23
  - TT-Miner 2.1.7
  - XMRig miner 2.10.0 for AMD, nVidia and CPU
Corrections
  - User interface correction to Profit Factor setting in Coin Properties
  - Adjusted exponential factor for calculating revenue of Equihash 96,5 coins
  - The rounding of the BMiner and NBMiner hashrate values was removed
  - BMiner to always use highest prioritized pool when there are several pools available
  - NBMiner command line correction for passing a password after the worker name

patrike

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Quote from: trucobit on January 25, 2019, 08:00:19 AM

Of course PAtrike, I suggest, although it may be insistent, here the boss and decide is you.

But I see incongruous, to my way of working that I have to change the Profit in the pool and then again in the Coins tab.

I await your solution or your no solution, I adapt to what you program.

The good news is that the next release will have a new setting for applying the pool profit factor to the coins on the Coins tab. This behavior will be configurable in the Options dialog, Statistics Settings section.

If you have more than one pool for a coin, the pool with the lowest profit factor will be used. Once the new version is available, please give it a try to see if it works like you had in mind.

patrike

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Quote from: trucobit on January 25, 2019, 07:58:26 AM

https://www.bminer.me/releases/

new version of Bminer optimized for Grin, you can directly use the url of your download and add the name of the folder.

Less Reject.

Bminer is a little delicate with Grin usually throw many cards, I recommend a soft OC in Windows

There will soon be a new Awesome Miner release where the latest BMiner is included.

patrike

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Quote from: sxemini on January 25, 2019, 06:51:20 AM

Hi Patrike,

any plans for adding rhminer for randomhash?

https://github.com/polyminer1/rhminer

I integrate it at the moment as a ccminer, so i get pool information, but no hashrate or something else.
Maybe someone has an idea how I get the hashrate

Thanks for the suggestion. I will consider adding this one.
First on the list of mining software to support will however be some Grin miner for AMD. All I've looked at so far have a little special setup process with configuration files.