Qlik Alerting Services not starting after install or an upgrade

[Ranganath_DR]

Reviewing alerting logs Qlik Alerting logs shows following error about NodeJS version mismatch:

Error: yargs parser supports a minimum Node.js version of 12. Read our version support policy: https://github.com/yargs/yargs-parser#supported-nodejs-versions 
at Object.<anonymous> (C:\Program Files\Qlik Alerting\setup
ode_modules\yargs-parser\build\index.cjs:1015:15)
at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:688:30)
at Object.<anonymous> (C:\Program Files\Qlik Alerting\setup
ode_modules\yargs\build\index.cjs:1:59993)
at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:688:30)
C:\Program Files\Qlik Alerting\setup
ode_modules\yargs-parser\build\index.cjs:1015
throw Error(`yargs parser supports a minimum Node.js version of ${minNodeVersion}. Read our version support policy: https://github.com/yargs/yargs-parser#supported-nodejs-versions `);

Resolution

Install the required version of NodeJS. See Qlik Alerting Installation prerequisites.

Cause

Installation prerequisites are not met.

Environment

Qlik Alerting