README.md

EtherCore Network Intelligence API

This is the backend service which runs along with ethercore and tracks the network status, fetches information through JSON-RPC and connects through WebSockets to eth-netstats to feed information.

Prerequisite

• geth or parity
• nodejs
• npm

Configuration

Configure the app modifying app.json.example.

"env":
	{
		"NODE_ENV"        : "production", // tell the client we're in production environment
		"RPC_HOST"        : "localhost", // eth JSON-RPC host
		"RPC_PORT"        : "8545", // eth JSON-RPC port
		"LISTENING_PORT"  : "30303", // eth listening port (only used for display)
		"INSTANCE_NAME"   : "", // whatever you wish to name your node
		"CONTACT_DETAILS" : "", // add your contact details here if you wish (email/skype)
		"WS_SERVER"       : "wss://stats.ethercore.org", // path to eth-netstats WebSockets api server
		"WS_SECRET"       : "EtherCore", // WebSockets api server secret used for login
		"VERBOSITY"       : 2 // Set the verbosity (0 = silent, 1 = error, warn, 2 = error, warn, info, success, 3 = all logs)
	}

Run

Run it using pm2:

cp app.json.example app.json
pm2 start app.json

Startup

To enable at system startup use the following command:

pm2 save
pm2 startup