Market Notices

Change Number: CHG0039558

Notification issued to: Market Notice

Notification Type: Initial

Change Type: Normal

Service/ Component: Network Outage Scheduler

Change Title: Planned System Outage due to NOS application version update to 3.0.9 (Production)

Change Start Date & Time: 22/06/2016 10:00:00 AEST

Change End Date & Time: 22/06/2016 11:00:00 AEST

Outage Start Date & Time: 22/06/2016 10:00:00 AEST

Outage End Date & Time: 22/06/2016 10:20:00 AEST

Change Description:

The upgrade will include minor enhancements to AEMO NOS user interface.

Environment: Production

Participant Impact and Requirements:

Production NOS will be unavailable during the specified outage times.

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

Change Number: CHG0039552

Notification issued to: Market Notice

Notification Type: Initial

Change Type: Normal

Service/ Component: Market Network

Change Title: Planned System Outage - NSW MarketNet Load-Balancer - Software patch update

Change Start Date & Time: 21/06/2016 09:30:00 AEST

Change End Date & Time: 21/06/2016 14:00:00 AEST

Outage Start Date & Time: 21/06/2016 10:00:00 AEST

Outage End Date & Time: 21/06/2016 12:00:00 AEST

Change Description:

Vendor recommended the patch to be applied to mitigate a number of software bugs and vulnerabilities that may compromise the stability of the load-balancer.

Environment: Production

Participant Impact and Requirements:

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

IPWAN Participants - Marketnet IPWAN will experience 2 x 30 second disruptions

Lan-2-Lan VPN Participants - Participant connected to the NSW VPN gateway (202.44.78.10) will experience 2 disruptions lasting 30 seconds each.
To avoid disruptions, please connect via the QLD VPN gateway (202.44.76.10) prior to Change start time as mentioned above.

Remote Access VPN Participants - 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)
will experience three disruptions lasting 30 seconds each.
Note: Participants are advised 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.

Market Notice

Change Number: CHG0039127

Notification issued to: Market Notice

Notification Type: Initial

Change Type: Normal

Service/ Component: Energy Forecasting Web Portal

Change Title: Planned System Outage to the Energy Forecasting Web Portal

Change Start Date & Time: 10/06/2016 09:00:00 AEST

Change End Date & Time: 10/06/2016 13:00:00 AEST

Outage Start Date & Time: 10/06/2016 10:00:00 AEST

Outage End Date & Time: 10/06/2016 13:00:00 AEST

Change Description:

Update of Forecasting Interactive Website (http://forecasting.aemo.com.au) to prepare for release of 2016 National Electricity Forecasting report.

Environment: Production

Participant Impact and Requirements:

Forecasting Interactive Website and associated Administration Webpage may not be available during the deployment window. Users need to try accessing the website after the deployment is completed as mentioned in the timeline.

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

Market Notice

Change Number: CHG0039217

Notification issued to: Market Notice

Notification Type: Initial

Change Type: Normal

Service/ Component: Market Network

Change Title: Planned System Outage - QLD MarketNet VPN POP

Change Start Date & Time: 16/06/2016 10:00:00 AEST

Change End Date & Time: 16/06/2016 12:00:00 AEST

Outage Start Date & Time: 16/06/2016 10:00:00 AEST

Outage End Date & Time: 16/06/2016 12:00:00 AEST

Change Description:

All MarketNet VPN access via the QLD VPN POP will be impacted.

Environment: Production

Participant Impact and Requirements:

All MarketNet VPN access via the QLD VPN POP will be impacted.
Participants are advised to transition to AEMO's NSW VPN POP during this outage window to minimize any potential outages.
-Site-to-Site: 202.44.78.10 or
-Remote Access: 202.44.78.8

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

Market Notice

Incident Number: INC0022428

Notification issued to: Market Notice

Notification Type: Alert/Update

Service/ Component: Gas Bulletin Board

Title: Unplanned System Outage - Gas Bulletin Board - service restored

Impacts:
Participants were unable to upload files to the Gas Bulletin Board via website or FTP

User Requirements:
Participants to be aware that the Gas Bulletin Board website and FTP service has been restored.
Participants might experience some slow upload performance as the Gas Bulletin Board returns to normal.

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

Enterprise Technology Services

Market Notice

Incident Number: INC0022428

Notification issued to: Market Notice

Notification Type: Alert/Update

Service/ Component: Gas Bulletin Board

Title: Unplanned System Outage - Gas Bulletin Board

Impacts:
Participants unable to upload files to the Gas Bulletin Board via website or FTP

User Requirements:
Participants to be aware that AEMO are working to resolve an uplanned outage of the Gas Bulletin Board

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

Enterprise Technology Services

MARKET NOTICE

Change Number: CHG0038803

Notification issued to: Market Notice

Notification Type: Completed

Change Type: Normal

Service/ Component: MSATS - Consumer Administration and Transfer Solution

Change Title: Planned System Change - MSATS Pre-Production Mid-Year 2016 - Release 46.85

Change Description:
Implementation has been completed with no issues.

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

Market Notice

Change Number: CHG0039217

Notification issued to: Market Notice

Notification Type: Initial

Change Type: Normal

Service/ Component: Market Network

Change Title: Planned System Outage - QLD MarketNet VPN POP

Change Start Date & Time: 08/06/2016 10:00:00 AEST

Change End Date & Time: 08/06/2016 12:00:00 AEST

Outage Start Date & Time: 08/06/2016 10:00:00 AEST

Outage End Date & Time: 08/06/2016 12:00:00 AEST

Change Description:

All MarketNet VPN access via the QLD VPN POP will be impacted.

Environment: Production

Participant Impact and Requirements:

All MarketNet VPN access via the QLD VPN POP will be impacted.
Participants are advised to transition to AEMO's NSW VPN POP during this outage window to minimize any potential outages.
-Site-to-Site: 202.44.78.10 or
-Remote Access: 202.44.78.8

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

Change Number: CHG0039137


Notification issued to: Market Notice

Notification Type: Initial

Change Type: Normal

Service/ Component: Market Settlement and Transfer Solution (MSATS)

Change Title: Planned Maintenance to MSATS Production System

Change Start Date & Time: 10/06/2016 18:30:00 AEST

Change End Date & Time: 10/06/2016 19:30:00 AEST


Outage Start Date & Time: 10/06/2016 18:30:00 AEST


Outage End Date & Time: 10/06/2016 19:30:00 AEST


Change Description:

This is a maintenance to MSATS Production Batch Handlers to fulfill a request by one of the registered participants.

Environment: Production

Participant Impact and Requirements:

Awareness of this Change. Participants will still be able to send files, these files will be queued for 5 to 10 minutes and processed after the change implementation.

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