Syslog differences between Resident and Event Scripts

[BarryFromBondi]

I have the exact same Syslog set up in my Resident and Event Scripts - the Resident Scripts Syslog works, however the Event scripts doesnt

The syslog set up that works in Resident is 

local socket = require("socket")

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-- SYSLOG CONFIG
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local SYSLOG_HOST = "192.168.1.51"
local SYSLOG_PORT = 1514

local HOSTNAME = "logicmachine"
local APPNAME  = "solar-master"

local LOG_INTERVAL = 60  -- seconds

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-- PERSISTENT UDP SOCKET
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storage.syslog_socket = storage.syslog_socket or socket.udp()

local udp = storage.syslog_socket
udp:settimeout(0)

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-- RFC5424 TIMESTAMP
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local function rfc5424_time()

  local now = os.time()
  local utc = os.time(os.date("!*t", now))
  local offset = os.difftime(now, utc)

  local sign = "+"
  if offset < 0 then sign = "-" end

  offset = math.abs(offset)

  local hours = math.floor(offset / 3600)
  local mins  = math.floor((offset % 3600) / 60)

  return os.date("%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S") ..
        string.format("%s%02d:%02d", sign, hours, mins)

end

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-- SYSLOG SENDER
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local function slog(fields)

  local timestamp = rfc5424_time()

  local msg = "<14>1 "..timestamp.." "..HOSTNAME.." "..APPNAME.." - - - "..fields

  udp:sendto(msg, SYSLOG_HOST, SYSLOG_PORT)

end

What needs to change for an Event Script to behave the same way and allow for logging to an external syslog server?

Thanks