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NAME

       cfetoolcheck - Check a new value against the averages currently in the database

SYNOPSIS

       cfetool check name --value|-V value [--path|-p directory name] [--time|-t seconds] [--daily|-d] [--weekly|-w] [--yearly|-y] [--his-
       tograms|-H] [--verbose|-v] [--help|-h]

DESCRIPTION

       Takes a new value and checks it against the averages currently in the database specified by name, located at the path specified by the -p
       argument, or the current working directory if the -p argument is omitted.  The value will be associated with the current time, unless the
       -t option is given. The output indicates how much higher or lower the new value is compared to the averages in the database, in terms of
       the number of standard deviations.

       The -d, -w and -y options specify the databases to check the new value against. If all three options are omitted, only the weekly database
       will be accessed.

OPTIONS

       --value|-v value
	   Specifies the new value to check against the database averages.

       --path|-p directory name
	   The directory in which the database specified by name can be found.

       --time|-t
	   The time the value was collected, in seconds since epoch (January 1st, 1970).  If this argument is omitted, the current time will be
	   used.

       --daily|-d
	   Check the new value against the daily averages database.

       --weekly|-w
	   Check the new value against the weekly averages database.

       --yearly|-y
	   Check the new value against the yearly averages database.

       --histograms|-H
	   Check which histogram bucket the new value would fall into.	The histogram is divided into 64 buckets, which represent distances from
	   the mean value. Bucket 64 represents two standard deviations above the expected value, and bucket 0 represents two standard deviations
	   below the expected value.

       --verbose|-v
	   Print details of the command's execution to the standard output stream.

       --help|-h
	   Print a short help message and then exit.

OUTPUT

       Before exiting, "cfetool check" will print one line to the standard output stream, in the following format:

       yrly=ynum,bkt=ybkt;wkly=wnum,bkt=wbkt;dly=dnum,bkt=dbkt

       ybkt, wbkt and dbkt represent the histogram bucket the given value falls into, and will be 0 for databases that are not being checked
       against, and if there is no histogram file or the -H option was not specified.

       ynum, wnum and dnum will be either the number 0 if the corresponding database was not updated, or a code indicating the state of the given
       statistic, as compared to an average of equivalent earlier times, as specified below:

	code	high|low|normal   meaning
	-------------------------------------------------------------
	 -2	-		  no sigma variation
	-------------------------------------------------------------
	 -4	low		  within noise threshold, and within
	 -5	normal		    2 standard deviations from
	 -6	high		    expected value
	-------------------------------------------------------------
	-14	low		  microanomaly: within noise
	-15	normal		    threshold, but 2 or more standard
	-16	high		    deviations from expected value
	-------------------------------------------------------------
	-24	low		  normal; within 1 standard deviation
	-25	normal		    from the expected value
	-26	high
	-------------------------------------------------------------
	-34	low		  dev1; more than 1 standard
	-35	normal		    deviation from the expected
	-36	high		    value
	------------------------------------------------------------
	-44	low		  dev2; more than 2 standard
	-45	normal		    deviations from the expected
	-46	high		    value
	-------------------------------------------------------------
	-54	low		  anomaly; more than 3 standard
	-55	normal		    deviations from the expected
	-56	high		    value

       Where "low" indicates that the current value is below both the expected value for the current time position, and the global average value.
       "high" indicates that the current value is above those values. "normal" indicates that the current value is within the range of expected
       values.

       "cfetool check" also exits with a code corresponding to the above table. If more than one database is being checked against, the most nega-
       tive result from all checks is returned, and the individual results must be obtained from the standard output stream, as described above.

EXAMPLE

	 % cfetool check temperature --path /my/path --value 20 --histograms
	 yrly=0,bkt=0;wkly=-6,bkt=51;dly=0,bkt=0

       Checks the value 20 against the weekly temperature database and histogram files located in /my/path/ using the current time. The output
       indicates that the new value given was within cfetool's noise threshold, and also within 2 standard deviations of the previous average
       stored in the weekly database.

AUTHORS

       The code and documentation were contributed by Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, a department of Stanford University.	This documentation
       was written by

       Elizabeth Cassell <e_a_c@mailsnare.net> and
       Alf Wachsmann <alfw@slac.stanford.edu>

COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMER

	Copyright 2004 Alf Wachsmann <alfw@slac.stanford.edu> and
		       Elizabeth Cassell <e_a_c@mailsnare.net>
	All rights reserved.

perl v5.8.4							    2004-09-21							   CFETOOLCHECK(8)