# Umbrel as watchtower **URL:** \ **Category:** Support and Troubleshooting\ **Created:** [March 18, 2022, 4:21pm UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/umbrel-as-watchtower/6814 "2022-03-18T16:21:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![T0B1A5](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/838e76/32.png) [@T0B1A5](https://community.umbrel.com/u/T0B1A5)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2022, 4:21pm UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/umbrel-as-watchtower/6814/1 "2022-03-18T16:21:14Z")
Hi I want to try to make my umbrel an watchtower I was playing around adding [watchtower] watchtower.active=1 to lnd.conf + restarting the node as a first step. From my understanding after restart I should be able to get into docker exec -it lnd sh and than run lncli tower info Sadly the first command fails with Error response from daemon: Container XXX is restarting, wait until the container is running Same happens with [wtclient] wtclient.active=1 I also tesed =true but with the same error message in both cases. Any idea? ---
**Author:** ![LoboGuara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/54ee81/32.png) [@LoboGuara](https://community.umbrel.com/u/LoboGuara)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2022, 5:05pm UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/umbrel-as-watchtower/6814/2 "2022-03-18T17:05:51Z")
Missing watchtower path-to-files configuration. But I guess watchtower server is something to put in public nodes. Or if you have several nodes in your intranet. Keep your nodes running full time and you don´t need any watchtower. ---
**Author:** ![DarthCoin](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.umbrel.com/darthcoin/32/1628_2.png) [@DarthCoin](https://community.umbrel.com/u/DarthCoin)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2022, 6:24pm UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/umbrel-as-watchtower/6814/3 "2022-03-18T18:24:20Z")
Here in the [troubleshooting manual](http://community.umbrel.com/t/umbrel-troubleshooting-guide/3632) I put all the instructions how to run your node as WT server and/or client