[snips-users] Notifier vs sniplogd question

[Mark Ching <mac at 3jane net>]

Hi Folks,

I've recently installed Snips 1.2beta2 (yesterday)  I've configured a few 
monitors and have been trying to figure out how the notifier and snipslogd 
work together for notification of downed services
Could someone ensure my sanity and let me know that what I'm 
seeing/thinking is right?

So far this is what I understand.
Notifier.pl is the script that sends an email or page, but only when an 
error hits the critical level.   Then sends every hour if configured.  It 
doesn't send a notification when the service/machien/etc comes back.
snipslogd on the other hand more like a syslogd.  It captures output on 
port 5354 and writes to log files configured in snipslogd.confg.   And can 
be configured for piped commands.


Here is where I have gotten myself completely confused.  Do the Notifier 
cronjob and syslogd piped command work mutually exclusive of each other?
So if you just want to know when things change state, then you should only 
use snipslogd?

Mark