Market Notices

Change Number: CHG0040210

Notification issued to: Market Notice

Notification Type: Initial

Change Type: Normal

Service/ Component: Market Network

Change Title: Planned System Change - Telstra planned - QLD MarketNET IPWAN link

Change Start Date & Time: 29/08/2016 09:00:00 AEST

Change End Date & Time: 30/08/2016 04:00:00 AEST

Outage Start Date & Time: 29/08/2016 10:00:00 AEST

Outage End Date & Time: 29/08/2016 12:00:00 AEST

Change Description:

The AEMO MarketNET IPWAN link will experience an outage as preparation for Telstra planned system change.

Environment: Production

Participant Impact and Requirements:

Impacts and User Requirements

The following impacts are expected to participant connectivity during this planned outage:

IPWAN Participants - Marketnet IPWAN will experience at least one disruption lasting 30 seconds during this planned outage.
Lan-2-Lan VPN Participants - nil
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: CHG0039839

Notification issued to: Market Notice

Notification Type: Initial

Change Type: Normal

Service/ Component: Gas Supply Hub

Change Title: Planned System Maintenance - Gas Supply Hub Production Site Transfer

Change Start Date & Time: 06/09/2016 19:00:00 AEST

Change End Date & Time: 06/09/2016 21:00:00 AEST

Outage Start Date & Time: 06/09/2016 19:00:00 AEST

Outage End Date & Time: 06/09/2016 20:00:00 AEST

Change Description:

The Gas Supply Hub Production System is to be transferred to the alternate site to support maintenance activities (QLD to NSW)

Environment: Production

Participant Impact and Requirements:

All access to the Gas Supply Hub (Exchange Trading System) will be unavailable during the outage period. Please access outside this outage period.

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

Change Number: CHG0040095

Notification issued to: Market Notice

Notification Type: Initial

Change Type: Normal

Service/ Component: Electricity Market Management System

Change Title: Planned System Change - Update Pre-Production EMMS Registration calendar with public holiday

Change Start Date & Time: 24/08/2016 08:00:00 AEST

Change End Date & Time: 24/08/2016 17:00:00 AEST

Outage Start Date & Time:

Outage End Date & Time:

Change Description:

This change is to update the registration table to include Grand Final Day as a public holiday in Victoria.

Environment: Pre-Production

Participant Impact and Requirements:

Awareness of the Change. This action is not expected to have any impact on users.

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

Due to some unforeseen circumstances, the change below is not going ahead as communicated earlier. Please be advised the new date and time will be communicated once finalised. AEMO apologises for any inconvenience caused by the cancellation.

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


Market Notice

Change Number: CHG0040127


Notification issued to: Market Notice

Notification Type: Initial

Change Type: Normal

Service/ Component: Gas Bulletin Board

Change Title: National Gas Bulletin Board (AEMC Rule Changes) - Pre-Production Refresh and Release

Change Start Date & Time: 10/08/2016 10:00:00 AEST

Change End Date & Time: 17/08/2016 17:00:00 AEST


Outage Start Date & Time: 17/08/2016 10:00:00 AEST


Outage End Date & Time: 17/08/2016 14:00:00 AEST


Change Description:

The NGSBB pre-production environment will undergo refresh and release to deploy new changes, as part of the Enhanced Information for Gas Transmission Pipeline Capacity Trading Rule change.

Environment: Pre-Production

Participant Impact and Requirements:

The following impacts are expected during this maintenance:
-Refresh of pre-production databases with production data will be done out of service hours, between 7pm-12am on Wed 10 Aug 2016.
-To deploy the updated application into pre-production, the NGSBB will be unavailable between 10am-2pm on Wed 17 Aug 2016.
-Please note that from 18-23 Aug 2016, AEMO will be performing security testing of (NGBB) pre-production services, which may affect the performance of the NGSBB in pre-production.

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

Market Notice


Change Number: CHG0040099


Notification issued to: Market Notice

Notification Type: Initial

Change Type: Normal

Service/ Component: STTM - Market Reports

Change Title: Planned System Outage - STTM Production Systems

Change Start Date & Time: 25/08/2016 18:30:00 AEST

Change End Date & Time: 25/08/2016 21:00:00 AEST


Outage Start Date & Time: 25/08/2016 18:30:00 AEST


Outage End Date & Time: 25/08/2016 21:00:00 AEST


Change Description:

Maintenance is to be performed on the Production STTM to increase reliability, security and stability of the system. During the maintenance, there will be an outage to the application as per the times mentioned.

Environment: Production

Participant Impact and Requirements:

There will be no access to the Production STTM systems for the duration of the outage. Please access outside these hours.

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

Market Notice


Change Number: CHG0040059


Notification issued to: Market Notice

Notification Type: Initial

Change Type: Normal

Service/ Component: MSATS - Consumer Administration and Transfer Solution

Change Title: Planned System Change - MSATS patch release to resolve incident INC0020436

Change Start Date & Time: 24/08/2016 17:00:00 AEST

Change End Date & Time: 24/08/2016 18:00:00 AEST


Outage Start Date & Time: 24/08/2016 17:00:00 AEST


Outage End Date & Time: 24/08/2016 18:00:00 AEST


Change Description:

Maintenance is performed periodically on the Market Settlement and Transfer Solutions (MSATS) Production environment to increase reliability, stability and security.

Environment: Production

Participant Impact and Requirements:

Awareness of this Outage. MSATS Production environment will be unavailable during the outage times mentioned above.

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

Market Notice


Change Number: CHG0040030


Notification issued to: Market Notice

Notification Type: Initial

Change Type: Normal

Service/ Component: Market Settlement and Transfer Solution

Change Title: Planned System Change - MSATS patch release to resolve incident INC0020436

Change Start Date & Time: 19/08/2016 16:00:00 AEST

Change End Date & Time: 19/08/2016 17:00:00 AEST


Outage Start Date & Time: 19/08/2016 16:00:00 AEST


Outage End Date & Time: 19/08/2016 17:00:00 AEST


Change Description:

Maintenance is performed periodically on the Market Settlement and Transfer Solutions (MSATS) Pre-Production environment to increase reliability, stability and security.

Environment: Pre-Production

Participant Impact and Requirements:

Awareness of this Outage. MSATS Pre-Production environment will be unavailable during the outage times mentioned above.

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

Market Notice


Change Number: CHG0040016

Notification issued to: Market Notice

Notification Type: Initial

Change Type: Normal

Service/ Component: Wide Area Network

Change Title: Planned System Change - AEMO NSW Datatcenter Internet Link Upgrade

Change Start Date & Time: 23/08/2016 10:00:00 AEST

Change End Date & Time: 24/08/2016 12:00:00 AEST

Outage Start Date & Time: 24/08/2016 10:00:00 AEST

Outage End Date & Time: 24/08/2016 12:00:00 AEST

Change Description:

The AEMO NSW datacenter internet telecommunications service will experience an outage as part of an upgraded to this service.

Environment: Production

Participant Impact and Requirements:

Impacts and User Requirements

The following impacts are expected to participant connectivity during this planned outage:

IPWAN Participants - IPWAN Participants - Nil

Lan-2-Lan VPN Participants - Upto 30 minutes to participants whom have established their VPN connection/s via the AEMO NSW datacenter termination point (202.44.78.10)
Note: Participants are encouraged to ensure their VPN connections are already established or are configured (as per AEMO best practice) to automatically failover to the alternate AEMO QLD datacenter termination point (202.44.76.10) prior to this scheduled outage.

Remote Access VPN Participants - Upto 30 minutes to participants who utilise an AEMO RSA token and the AEMO VPN client software to establish their VPN via the AEMO NSW datacenter VPN termination point (202.44.78.8)
Note: Participants are encouraged to establish their VPN client software connections via the alternate AEMO QLD datacenter VPN endpoint (202.44.76.8) prior to this scheduled outage.

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

Due to some unforeseen circumstances, the change below is not going ahead as communicated earlier. Please be advised the new date and time will be communicated once finalised. AEMO apologises for any inconvenience caused by the cancellation.

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