Director vs. Logger Application

Use logger application instead of the default director when sending Post Office notifications to a sensor. Sending to a logging application means no alarms are sent to a GUI. Instead, the Cisco Secure IDS alarm data is written to a flat file, which can then be processed with scripts or filters, such as perl and awk, or staged to a database. Use logger only in advanced applications where you want the alarms only to be logged and not displayed.