5 Hive OS Tips for large ASIC farms

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Owners of large farms often face the same problems of how to simplify the management process. We’ve gathered five useful, but often overlooked, Hive OS functions when working with your ASICs farms.

1. Segregating your workers using farms
Many mining hotel owners or administrators of several customers prefer to segregate their user base in Hive OS by farms based on different networks or premises.

A farm is a group of workers that you combine together to aggregate a part of your devices (workers). In a farm, workers are isolated from each other, meaning each farm shows a separate general statistic like power consumption, hashrate, the number of devices with problems, etc. It is a convenient way to place individual clients or individual premises as a farm. It is also convenient to apply an action in bulk across an entire farm. For example, change wallets or pools for all devices.

In Hive OS there are different access rights for accounts. Let’s say, an administrator can have 10 farms with full access to them, and can share any farm with monitoring rights (without management) with another account. A client can receive notifications in Telegram in case their workers have problems or to check their statistics.

2. Using Tags
There are many options where tags can be used:

• If you do not want to segregate customers using farms, then this can be done by tags instead. For example, a mining hotel has dozens of customers who have 10 ASICs, so it may be inconvenient to create dozens of farms, going into each to perform actions in bulk. If someone would need to change overclocking to all ASICs in all the farms due to a strong temperature change, they would have to change them all to the same profile one at a time as Hive OS doesn’t support bulk actions for farms. So with tags it’s possible to distinguish between different clients in the same farm, and to bulk apply actions.
• Also, tags can be used to describe problems with hardware. For instance, “Swap fan”, “Problem with PSU”, “Replace hash board”, etc. It’s convenient for further maintenance, and accounting of problematic machines.
• Tags can be used to mark devices with nuances for further work. “Do not overclock”, “Problem with flash” etc.

Using tags to sort problematic workers

3. Statistics
Currently, there are statistics for a specific single device, or for the entire farm. Farm statistics shows a hashrate graph and a graph of the number of active devices.

The statistics of the device shows graphs of consumption, hashrate, temperature and fan speed.

All statistics can be exported to a .csv file. This allows a user to calculate the average or an exact value for any given period or even build custom charts.

Each farm displays in real-time the current hashrates, power consumption and the number of non-working devices.

Statistics of consumption, hashrate, temperature and fan speed

4. ASICs bulk installation
There are several ways in which you can install Hive OS unto an ASIC:

• Installation from another ASIC with SSH access.
• Searching for all Antminer ASICs in LAN on specified ranges of addresses. When searching, a list of IPs is obtained, on which further installation will occur. The list can also be created manually, or copied from BTC Tools. If the names of workers are added to the list, they will immediately have the specified names in Hive’s web interface.
• Bulk installation Hiveon firmware.
• Bulk installation of the client on any Antminer via SSH access.
• Bulk apply the farm_hash.

All installation manuals are available in our GitHub.

Bulk firmware installation through the web interface

5. ASICs bulk actions
There are many different actions that can be performed with the ASICs in bulk. For example, overclock, flash, change the wallet/pool and receive notifications.

Through Hive’s web interface, you can select all the devices in a farm in one click or select one device at a time. Another option is to select all devices on the page in multipage mode. Further, you can perform the following actions in bulk:

• Bulk flash devices.
• Change the overclocking profile.
• Apply flight sheets. Flight sheets can change the wallets and pools on your devices assuming you have different presets on different flight sheets.
• Shutdown/reboot devices.
• Send a command using shell.
• Apply a watchdog.

Bulk flight sheets applying

The above-mentioned functionality will be of great help to anyone who’s managing a large number of ASICs as they provide users with tons of flexibility for just about any use case.
Don’t forget to use these helpful functions when working on your farms.
Good luck and happy mining!