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I recently bought a new fancy APS battery backup/surge protector power strip, that's supposed to switch off my peripherals after the Mac goes to sleep. (in the interest of being more green) Unfortunately, when I plug my USB speaker's power cord into one of the "master controlled" outlets on the strip, upon initiating a sleep command via pulldown menu, the machine sleeps, and then wakes immediately. I've isolated the problem to the following; if I disconnect the speakers USB cable, the problem doesn't occur... the mac sleep, the peripherals shut off.
It seems that the speaker is injecting some noise into the USB port as power shuts down, that the mac seems to interpret as a USB event/wake command. Is there any way to delay the time constant between sleeping and waking? Is there some way to hold off the mac from watching the USB port after sleeping for 3 sec, 5 sec or something like that ? I'm hoping that there is a time constant I can tweek.
Thanks for any help

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Also, why do you want it to retry a failure? It failed for a reason so you need to fix the cause of the failure first. If it failed the first, it will likely fail the next time for the same reason. In general, ConfigMgr will only retry on transient type
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