configtxgen

The configtxgen command allows users to create and inspect channel config related artifacts. The content of the generated artifacts is dictated by the contents of configtx.yaml.

Syntax

The configtxgen tool has no sub-commands, but supports flags which can be set to accomplish a number of tasks.

configtxgen

Usage of configtxgen:
  -asOrg string
        Performs the config generation as a particular organization (by name), only including values in the write set that org (likely) has privilege to set
  -channelCreateTxBaseProfile string
        Specifies a profile to consider as the orderer system channel current state to allow modification of non-application parameters during channel create tx generation. Only valid in conjunction with 'outputCreateChannelTx'.
  -channelID string
        The channel ID to use in the configtx
  -configPath string
        The path containing the configuration to use (if set)
  -inspectBlock string
        Prints the configuration contained in the block at the specified path
  -inspectChannelCreateTx string
        Prints the configuration contained in the transaction at the specified path
  -outputAnchorPeersUpdate string
        Creates an config update to update an anchor peer (works only with the default channel creation, and only for the first update)
  -outputBlock string
        The path to write the genesis block to (if set)
  -outputCreateChannelTx string
        The path to write a channel creation configtx to (if set)
  -printOrg string
        Prints the definition of an organization as JSON. (useful for adding an org to a channel manually)
  -profile string
        The profile from configtx.yaml to use for generation.
  -version
        Show version information

Usage

Output a genesis block

Write a genesis block to genesis_block.pb for channel orderer-system-channel for profile SampleSingleMSPRaftV1_1.

configtxgen -outputBlock genesis_block.pb -profile SampleSingleMSPRaftV1_1 -channelID orderer-system-channel

Output a channel creation tx

Write a channel creation transaction to create_chan_tx.pb for profile SampleSingleMSPChannelV1_1.

configtxgen -outputCreateChannelTx create_chan_tx.pb -profile SampleSingleMSPChannelV1_1 -channelID application-channel-1

Inspect a genesis block

Print the contents of a genesis block named genesis_block.pb to the screen as JSON.

configtxgen -inspectBlock genesis_block.pb

Inspect a channel creation tx

Print the contents of a channel creation tx named create_chan_tx.pb to the screen as JSON.

configtxgen -inspectChannelCreateTx create_chan_tx.pb

Output anchor peer tx

Output a configuration update transaction to anchor_peer_tx.pb which sets the anchor peers for organization Org1 as defined in profile SampleSingleMSPChannelV1_1 based on configtx.yaml.

configtxgen -outputAnchorPeersUpdate anchor_peer_tx.pb -profile SampleSingleMSPChannelV1_1 -asOrg Org1

Configuration

The configtxgen tool’s output is largely controlled by the content of configtx.yaml. This file is searched for at FABRIC_CFG_PATH and must be present for configtxgen to operate.

Refer to the sample configtx.yaml shipped with Fabric for all possible configuration options. You may find this file in the config directory of the release artifacts tar, or you may find it under the sampleconfig folder if you are building from source.

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