Error while adding participant to local application

Question

I am working on 0.16.0v of composer and trying to deploy the application on local network.

The steps I have followed so far are:

1. Start Fabric: ./startFabric.sh
2. Create Composer Profile: ./createComposerProfile.sh
3. Create Peer Admin Card: ./createPeerAdminCard.sh
4. Network Deployment: composer network deploy -a perishable-network.bna -A admin -c PeerAdmin@hlfv1 -S adminST

Now after these steps I am trying to add a participant and I am getting error.

        5. Add Participant: composer add participant add -c PeerAdmin@hlfv1 -d '{"$class":"org.hyperledger.composer.system.NetworkAdmin", "participantId":"Abhilash"}'

Error: Error trying to ping. Error: No business network has been specified for this connection

How to solve this?

Answer 1

Do the following to solve the problem

composer network deploy -a perishables-network.bna -A admin -S -c PeerAdmin@hlfv1 -f networkAdmin.card

This creates the network admin card (.card file) - you can import it to get this into the user's wallet.

composer card import --file networkAdmin.card

Lastly, ping the network - the first time its used, the certificates are retrieved:

composer network ping -c admin@perishables-network

this 'first use' will populate the user's (ie admin user identity) wallet in the .composer card store.

You don't need to do your step 5.

(Source: https://hyperledger.github.io/composer/reference/composer.network.deploy.html)