Setting up a notary service

Corda Enterprise comes with two notary implementations built-in:

• Single-node: a simple notary service that persists notarisation requests in the node’s database. It is easy to configure and can be used for testing, or networks that do not have strict availability requirements.
• Highly available: a clustered notary service operated by a single party, able to tolerate crash faults.

Single-node notary

To have a regular Corda node provide a notary service you simply need to set appropriate notary configuration values before starting it:

notary : { validating : false }

For a validating notary service specify:

notary : { validating : true }

For clients to be able to use the notary service, its identity must be added to the network parameters. This will be done automatically when creating the network, if using Network Bootstrapper.