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I don't think the cheapest APC Back-UPS units can be monitored except in Windows
Despite otherwise seeming to work correctly, I can't monitor a Back-UPS BX1600MI in Linux without seeing a constant stream of spurious battery detach/reattach and power fail/restore events that last less than 2 seconds each. I've tried multiple computers and multiple UPSes of that model. It doesn't happen in their own…