How does SNIPS differ from NOCOL?
SNIPS is a complete rewrite of NOCOL (which was released in 1991 as freeware also) and supports many enhanced features not available earlier (RRDtool graphing support, more customizable monitors). The core has been rewritten entirely and is better suited to future extensibility. It supports all the monitors that were available in NOCOL, but uses a slightly different and enhanced event data structure. These enhancements were necessary to permit future enhancements in the product. If you are a current user of Nocol, SNIPS is a drop in replacement. You can install SNIPS and then copy over all your existing NOCOL configuration files without modifications. However, SNIPS allows additional keywords in some monitors (rrd support, ippingmon more flexible, etc.) so you should see if you want to add these keywords to your configuration files. Change your mail aliases and /etc/services file to replace ‘noclog’ with ‘snipslog’ and ‘nocol’ with ‘snips’ and you should be done.
