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Dear Sir,<BR>
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>From your website's documentation ,<BR>
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the explanation of the Matcher (Median) is :<BR>
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<H2><A id=IDESCRIPTION class=u title="click to go to top of document" href="http://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/matcher/Median.en.html#___top">DESCRIPTION</A></H2>
Call the matcher with the following sequence:<BR><PRE> type = matcher
pattern = Median(old=>x,new=>y,diff=>z)</PRE>
This will create a matcher which consumes x+y latency-datapoints, builds the two medians and the matches if the difference between the median latency is larger than z<STRONG><FONT color=#ff0000> seconds</FONT></STRONG>.<BR>
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I am monitoring a few thousands hosts and try to send alerts if any of the host has a sudden change of more than 15ms, I then has to set the value of z =15. If I follow your instruction, I have to set the value of z=0.015 which I think is incorrect.<BR>
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Should it be better to remove the word <<FONT color=#ff0000>seconds</FONT>> on the webpage :<BR>
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<A href="http://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/matcher/Median.en.html">http://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/matcher/Median.en.html</A><BR>
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Thanks n regards,<BR>
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-ricky-<BR>
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