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6. Node Management

Tip

For Iran routing rules, use Nodes → Update Geo.


Node Types

Type Description Use case
Local Node In-process core on the panel server Single-server setup
Remote Node Separate agent with gRPC/mTLS Multi-server fleet

Adding a Remote Node

  1. Nodes → Add Node
  2. Fields:
Field Example
Name de-fra-01
Address 203.0.113.10:50051
Core xray or singbox
Endpoint Public address for subscription (CDN/tunnel)
  1. Copy mTLS certs from deploy/certs/ to the agent
  2. Start the agent — status turns green

Health Monitoring

Each node card displays:

Metric UI warning threshold
CPU % >60% yellow, >85% red
RAM % same
Disk % same
Connections Active count
Last seen Last heartbeat

Node Actions

Button Action
Inbounds CRUD inbounds on this node
Logs Live core log stream
Restart Core Reload without long downtime
Stop Core Temporary stop
Update Geo Download Iran geoip/geosite
Edit / Delete Edit metadata / remove

Inbounds

Nodes → Inbounds → Add

  • Protocol, port, network, security
  • REALITY: Generate keypair
  • Advanced JSON editor
  • Share link import
  • Bandwidth limit per inbound
  • Geo-blocking per inbound
  • Evasion profile link

Failover & Migrate-Back

flowchart TD
    A["Node A — primary"] -->|"health fail"| B["Failover → Node B"]
    B -->|"A recovered"| C["Migrate-back → Node A"]
  • Users migrate to a healthy node
  • After recovery, automatic return (configurable)

Custom Endpoint

When the server's real IP differs from what clients see (CDN, reverse tunnel):

Endpoint: cdn.example.com

The subscription advertises this host instead of the internal address.


Cloudflare DNS Automation

With configuration:

VORTEX_CF_API_TOKEN=...
VORTEX_CF_ZONE_ID=...

A records for nodes can be created automatically.


GeoIP / Geosite (Iran)

Update Geo downloads from Iran-v2ray-rules:

  • geoip:ir, geosite:ir, category-ir
  • Ad/malware categories

Then the core reloads. Custom URL: POST /api/nodes/:id/geo-update


Hot-Switch Core

Each node can switch between xray and sing-box (Hysteria2/TUIC only on sing-box).


gRPC Keepalive

Idle panel↔node connections are kept alive with keepalive — they do not drop.