[CentOS] OT -- apcupsd messages

Mon Aug 2 14:07:08 UTC 2010
Robert <kerplop at sbcglobal.net>

Does anyone here have any "feel" for the "Battery disconnected" and 
"Battery reattached" log entries?
The rebooting came as a result of me turning off modems, router, 
external drives, monitor, cordless phone and finally, the computer, 
trying to locate a quiet but annoying "chirp".  The "chirps" stopped 
when I tilted the UPS to look at the front panel. As you can see, log 
entries stopped at as suddenly as they started.


    [root at madeleine ~]# grep apcupsd /var/log/messages | grep Aug
    Aug  1 22:56:20 madeleine apcupsd[3342]: Battery disconnected.
    Aug  1 23:11:36 madeleine apcupsd[3343]: apcupsd 3.14.3 (20 January
    2008) redhat startup succeeded
    Aug  1 23:11:36 madeleine apcupsd[3343]: Battery disconnected.
    Aug  1 23:11:37 madeleine apcupsd[3343]: NIS server startup succeeded
    Aug  1 23:22:06 madeleine apcupsd[3344]: apcupsd 3.14.3 (20 January
    2008) redhat startup succeeded
    Aug  1 23:22:06 madeleine apcupsd[3344]: Battery disconnected.
    Aug  1 23:22:07 madeleine apcupsd[3344]: NIS server startup succeeded
    Aug  2 00:18:40 madeleine apcupsd[3344]: Battery reattached.
    Aug  2 00:19:27 madeleine apcupsd[3344]: Battery disconnected.
    Aug  2 00:19:37 madeleine apcupsd[3344]: Battery reattached.
    Aug  2 00:22:13 madeleine apcupsd[3344]: Battery disconnected.

<snip>

    Aug  2 04:36:31 madeleine apcupsd[3344]: Battery disconnected.
    Aug  2 04:36:40 madeleine apcupsd[3344]: Battery reattached.
    Aug  2 04:36:48 madeleine apcupsd[3344]: Battery disconnected.
    Aug  2 04:36:57 madeleine apcupsd[3344]: Battery reattached.
    [root at madeleine ~]# date
    Mon Aug  2 08:45:41 CDT 2010
    [root at madeleine ~]#

Current UPS status is:

    APC      : 001,038,0962
    DATE     : Mon Aug 02 08:56:47 CDT 2010
    HOSTNAME : madeleine.localdomain
    RELEASE  : 3.14.3
    VERSION  : 3.14.3 (20 January 2008) redhat
    UPSNAME  : Clyde
    CABLE    : USB Cable
    MODEL    : Back-UPS XS 1300 LCD
    UPSMODE  : Stand Alone
    STARTTIME: Sun Aug 01 23:22:04 CDT 2010
    STATUS   : ONLINE
    LINEV    : 121.0 Volts
    LOADPCT  :  17.0 Percent Load Capacity
    BCHARGE  : 100.0 Percent
    TIMELEFT :  36.1 Minutes
    MBATTCHG : 25 Percent
    MINTIMEL : 10 Minutes
    MAXTIME  : 500 Seconds
    SENSE    : Medium
    LOTRANS  : 088.0 Volts
    HITRANS  : 136.0 Volts
    ALARMDEL : Always
    BATTV    : 26.2 Volts
    LASTXFER : No transfers since turnon
    NUMXFERS : 0
    TONBATT  : 0 seconds
    CUMONBATT: 0 seconds
    XOFFBATT : N/A
    SELFTEST : NO
    STATFLAG : 0x07000008 Status Flag
    MANDATE  : 2007-07-06
    SERIALNO : 8B0727R20810
    BATTDATE : 2072-00-37
    NOMINV   : 120 Volts
    NOMBATTV :  24.0 Volts
    NOMPOWER : 780 Watts
    FIRMWARE : 836.H5 .D USB FW:H5
    APCMODEL : Back-UPS XS 1300 LC
    END APC  : Mon Aug 02 08:57:32 CDT 2010

Hmmmm... Noticing above that the third anniversary of this UPS' birth 
(7/6/2007)
approacheth, I wonder if this might be APC's way of trying to scare me 
into recycling...