Market Notices

Change Start Date & Time: 25/10/2020 10:00:00 AEST

Change End Date & Time: 25/10/2020 14:00:00 AEST

Change Description:

Important Notice - AEMO GAS FRC Hub Certificate Change Reminder - October 25 Production

A reminder to all GAS FRC Hub participants.

This is a final reminder that on Sunday 25 of October between the hours of 10:00am and 2:00pm AEST AEMO will be replacing its certificates used below in its production environments

System OLD Certificate New Certificate Link to Certificate and authorities
GAS FRC HUB TLS Certificate FBS Prod Hub 2010 Sep FBS-Prod-Hub.aemo.com.au https://www.digicert.com/secure/download-certificate/wb9k9182w081mk5yfdb5g8tllphqlzv?product_name_id=ssl_securesite_pro&product_type=ssl_certificate&platform=2
GAS FRC HUB Signing Certificate FBS Prod Hub 2010 Sep FRC-HUB-RELAY-Prod https://www.digicert.com/secure/download-certificate/7ypzvwrgb10r8rqs04d92f448ng9kw8?product_name_id=private_ssl_plus&product_type=ssl_certificate&platform=2

Environment: Prod

Participant Impact and Requirements:

Before Sunday
o Have replaced and tested your old AEMO issued TLS certificate expiring this year with your new issued TLS certificate for production environments
o Have replaced and tested your profile used for ebXML Sign/Verify documents sent to AEMO with your new issued certificate for ebXML sign/verify payload production environments
o Updated your truststore to make sure you trust the future FBS-Prod-Hub.aemo.com.au certificate above. Certificate information and its authorities can be found in the link above

Post Sunday
Update your profile for AEMO's sign/verify certificate from the old certificate to the new FRC-HUB-RELAY-Prod. Link to download certificate can be found above

Failure to make the required changes will mean you will not be able to send and receive GAS FRC Hub payloads in the production environments
Any questions on this change can be sent to certificatereplacement@aemo.com.au

Change Number: CHG0061053

Notification issued to: Market Notice

Notification Type: Initial

Change Type: Normal

Service/ Component: MSATS - Business to Business data exchange

Change Title: Deploy UM fix to webMethods 10.3 to inactive bay (Norwest B), and do a Bay transfer of ESB and UM to Norwest B

Change Start Date & Time: 28/10/2020 09:00:00 AEST

Change End Date & Time: 28/10/2020 21:00:00 AEST

Outage Start Date & Time: 28/10/2020 18:30:00 AEST

Outage End Date & Time: 28/10/2020 20:30:00 AEST

Change Description:

MSATS E-Hub Production Outage to allow maintenance to be carried out. This change is to improve general stability of the platform.

Environment: Production

Participant Impact and Requirements:

Participants should be aware that:
- MSATS B2B sessions will be disabled during the outage window and participants will not be able to transact via API's.
- FTP File Processing will be delayed during the outage window.


Support Information:
Report any impacts to the AEMO Information and Support Hub or on External 1300 236 600.

Change Number: CHG0061531

Notification issued to: Market Notice

Notification Type: Initial

Change Type: Normal

Service/ Component: Market VPN

Change Title: Telco Outage Notification - Telstra MarketNet IP WAN - QLD (Telstra ref: 3251567)

Change Start Date & Time: 27/10/2020 00:00:00 AEST

Change End Date & Time: 27/10/2020 06:00:00 AEST

Outage Start Date & Time: 27/10/2020 00:00:00 AEST

Outage End Date & Time: 27/10/2020 06:00:00 AEST

Change Description:

Planned Maintenance Affecting the AEMO MarketNet IPWAN Access.

Environment: Production

Participant Impact and Requirements:

The following impacts are expected to participant connectivity during this planned outage:-
o IPWAN Participants - loss of redundancy for 10 minutes
o VPN Participants - nil
o Remote Access VPN Participants - nil

Support Information:
Report any impacts to the AEMO Information and Support Hub or on External 1300 236 600.

Change Number: CHG0061532

Notification issued to: Market Notice

Notification Type: Initial

Change Type: Normal

Service/ Component: Voice Systems

Change Title: Telco Outage Notification - TELSTRA Brisbane Indial (07 3347 XXXX-XXXX) (Telstra ref: 3251567)

Change Start Date & Time: 27/10/2020 00:00:00 AEST

Change End Date & Time: 27/10/2020 06:00:00 AEST

Outage Start Date & Time: 27/10/2020 00:00:00 AEST

Outage End Date & Time: 27/10/2020 06:00:00 AEST

Change Description:

Telco Outage Notification - Telstra Brisbane Indial (07 3347 XXXX-XXXX)

Environment: Production

Participant Impact and Requirements:

External/Market

Outage Duration:
1 x 2.5 Hours during the window

Impacts:
Reduced redundancy for Inbound and Outbound Calls (automatically rerouted via Norwest).

Support Information:
Report any impacts to the AEMO Information and Support Hub or on External 1300 236 600.

Change Number: CHG0060822

Notification issued to: Market Notice

Notification Type: Completed

Change Type: Normal

Service/ Component: MSATS - Meter Data Management

Change Title: Planned Extended Outage - MSATS B2M and E-Hub FTP and API's for Maintenance

Support Information:
Report any impacts to the AEMO Information and Support Hub or on External 1300 236 600.

Please note that the outage end date and time has been brought forward. The EMMS pre-production environment is now available for use.

Change Number: CHG0061112

Notification issued to: Market Notice

Notification Type: Initial

Change Type: Normal

Service/ Component: Electricity Market Management System

Change Title: Planned System Outage - Refresh of Electricity Market Management System (EMMS) in Pre-Production

Change Start Date & Time: 06/10/2020 09:00:00 AEST

Change End Date & Time: 22/10/2020 17:00:00 AEST

Outage Start Date & Time: 12/10/2020 10:00:00 AEST

Outage End Date & Time: 19/10/2020 10:00:00 AEST

Change Description:

The pre-production EMMS environment will be refreshed with production data and recovered up to 06th October 13:30 (AEST). This maintenance activity is essential for the reliability and performance of the system.

Environment: Pre-Production

Participant Impact and Requirements:

The EMMS Pre-Production environment will be unavailable during the outage window while this work is being performed.

Support Information Report any impacts to the AEMO Information and Support Hub or on External 1300 236 600.

Market Notice

Change Number: CHG0060822

Notification issued to: Market Notice

Notification Type: Initial

Change Type: Normal

Service/ Component: MSATS - Meter Data Management

Change Title: Planned Extended Outage - MSATS B2M and E-Hub FTP and API's for Maintenance

Change Start Date & Time: 16/10/2020 09:00:00 AEST

Change End Date & Time: 18/10/2020 15:00:00 AEST

Outage Start Date & Time: 18/10/2020 10:00:00 AEST

Outage End Date & Time: 18/10/2020 14:00:00 AEST

Change Description:

MSATS E-Hub Production Outage to allow maintenance to be carried out.
The MSATS and E-Hub outage is 10:00:00 - 16:30:00 AEST
A URM window of outage will occur between 10:00:00 - 11:00:00 AEST and have an expected outage duration of up to 15 minutes. During this time users will not be able to log in to new sessions. Users who are already logged in will not be impacted.

The change has some login outages that are below and will impact participants logging into
Electricity Markets : MSATS, NOS and OPDMS.
Web Portals: All web portal access including VDS, EMMS and RERT
Gas Markets: TMM and GBB production environments.
API: VPP, DERR, GBB,Self Forecasting, Gen recall, PCT.

AEMO recommends users who need to use these functions to login prior to the start of the outage and remain logged in.
NOTE: If you log out of this session, you will be unable to log back in until the completion of the URM outage.

There will also be an outage for the E-HUB during the entire MSATS outage window, this will affect MSATS FTP, MSATS B2B API' and EMMS API.

Environment: Production

Participant Impact and Requirements:


Participants should be aware that:

o MSATS Production will be unavailable for the duration of the Maintenance (refer to the information above for outage timeframes)
MSATS User rights Management (URM) Module impacts below:
o Production participant passwords will be retained.
o New Users and users t

Market Notice

Change Number: CHG0061184

Notification issued to: Market Notice

Notification Type: Rescheduled

Change Type: Normal

Service/ Component: Gas Hub

Change Title: Production Release - Support ebXML Sign/Verify for multiple certificates

Change Start Date & Time: 25/10/2020 10:00:00 AEST

Change End Date & Time: 25/10/2020 14:00:00 AEST

Outage Start Date & Time: 25/10/2020 10:00:00 AEST

Outage End Date & Time: 25/10/2020 14:00:00 AEST

Change Description:

AEMO is performing maintenance activity on the Gas Hub across the outage window.
This involves deploying a vendor supplied patch to the webMethods platform
*Rescheduled due to operational changes

Environment: Production

Participant Impact and Requirements:

The following impacts are expected during this maintenance:

- All access to the Gas B2B Hub and all ebXML gateways (AEMOMIBB, AGNLGWY, LVI & VENCORP) will be unavailable. CATS and MDMT transactions for VIC/QLD will be delayed during the maintenance window.
- Users are not required to take any action due to this change, however will need to enact manual workarounds for the outage period.

Support Information:
Report any impacts to the AEMO Information and Support Hub or on External 1300 236 600.

MARKET NOTICE

Change Number: CHG0061075

Notification issued to: Market Notice

Notification Type: Completed

Change Type: Normal

Service/ Component: MSATS - Consumer Administration and Transfer Solution(CATS)

Change Title: Apply Site Address update pack to MSATS

Support Information:
Report any impacts to the AEMO Information and Support Hub or on External 1300 236 600.