Ideal battery capacity alerts?

[#1]

OK, so I'm finding it pretty slick I'm notifying my users when they have hard disks that are almost full, and hard disks throwing Failing for SMART status. I now want to alert users when their battery capacity is diminished to the point that they should request a replacement from our helpdesk.

So my question to all of you out there is, what's considered bad or needs replacing for a Mac? We're all portables and expect to keep them in circulation for at least three years before retirement.

Thanks.

David Marcantonio

[abenedict]

300 charge cycles on Apple's removable batteries is considered "Consumed."
That number is a 1000 charge cycles for the sealed batteries in the newer
portables. After hitting those numbers, your battery's capacity diminishes
greatly from there.

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Alan Benedict
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The Integer Group
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[tlarkin]

This can be done with scripts, dummy receipts, and once a day policies. Depending on what you want to do.

What exactly do you want to do with batteries? I have scripts the
output info to /var/log/battery.log already and you could have other
casper policies parse those logs and perform certain actions to either
the end user, you, or both or whatever.