in the alert condition screen where the check box has "Condition must exist for more than XX Seconds|Minutes|Hours", It would be nice to add "Polling Cycles" to the drop down.
For example: My alert which is good for all other SAM monitors has "condition must exist for 10 minutes". I have a few SAM monitors that don't change often, so I only poll it once every 2 hours, it's also an intensive script that comes up with the number do I don't want to run it too often. For a few seconds after a reboot, the monitor might return an abnormally large number, which, if it happen to poll right then, makes it go critical for 2 hours, this is defiantly longer than 10 minutes.
If I could instead set it to "Condition must exist for more than 2 polling cycles" It would still be 10 minutes for all of my 5 minute polling monitors, and 4 hours for my special long cycle monitors.