qNotify is a single-page sign-in webapp permitting Novell engineers to receive qmon texts and email notifications for their appropriate queues. It has been designed to work in parallel with a configured & running instance of qmon.

qNotify is a web-application that is built on Node.js, which is a platform built on Chrome's JavaScript runtime for building fast, scalable network applications. I used nodejs and a module called Express.js instead of dealing with apache, tomcat, etc. Suffice it to say, nodejs is taking over enterprise web-development for good reasons.

qNotify dependencies

I have qNotify installed on a SLES 11 SP3 server with the following dependencies:

• qmon - configured for a team.
• Git-core
• NodeJS
• npm (package manager for nodejs)
  Note: Although I don't anticipate any dependency issues, if there are any problems, consider installing the SLES Development Tools/Kit.
  

Install Dependencies:

1. Install & configure qmon
   qNotify depends on a running instance of qmon. It essentially passes in terminal commands to update the notification list of qmon and relies on qmon to do the actual notifying: http://proetus.provo.novell.com/qmon/

2. Install git-core

   zypper in git-core

   or if the repository is missing:

   zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/tools:/scm/SLE_11_SP3/devel:tools:scm.repo
   zypper in git-core

3. Install NodeJS
   

   zypper in nodejs-devel

   or if the repository is missing:

   zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/nodejs/SLE_11_SP3/devel:languages:nodejs.repo
   zypper in nodejs nodejs-devel

   Note: If needed, here are the binaries: http://nodejs.org/download/

4. Install npm
   

   curl -L https://npmjs.org/install.sh | sh

Install qNotify:

1. Clone the qNotify repository using the git clone command:

   cd /srv/www/
   git clone https://github.com/tdharris/qNotify.git

2. While in the qNotify directory, install its' dependencies with npm:

   cd qNotify
   npm install

3. Install the rcnotify script:

   cd rc
   ./make-rc-sles.sh

Configure qNotify:

• In the qNotify directory, there is a config.json file:

  {
      "listenHttp": true,
      "httpPort": 80,
      "httpsPort": 443,
      "privateKey": "./ssl/privatekey.pem",
      "certificate": "./ssl/certificate.pem",
      "logDirectory": "./logs"
  }

  Note: Set listenHttp to false if wallboard is being run on the server (Apache listening on http:80). Otherwise, stick with the defaults.

Run qNotify

• From a terminal window:

  rcnotify {start|stop|status|log|users}

• OR From the qNotify directory:

  npm start