Market Notices

Change Number: CHG0081942
Notification issued to: Market Notice
Notification Type: Completed
Change Type: Normal
Service/Component: Electricity Market Management System
Change Title: Critical Maintenance of Wholesale Electricity and Gas Applications
Support Information: Report any impacts to the AEMO Information and Support Hub or on External 1300 236 600.

Change Number: CHG0082105
Notification issued to: Market Notice
Notification Type: Initial
Change Type: Normal
Service/ Component: MDM - Meter Data Management
Change Title: BAU Retail November Maintenance Release
Change Start Date & Time: 10/12/2023 10:00:00 AEST
Change End Date & Time: 10/12/2023 18:00:00 AEST
Outage Start Date & Time: 10/12/2023 10:00:00 AEST
Outage End Date & Time: 10/12/2023 14:00:00 AEST
Environment: Production
Participant Impact and Requirements: Users will not be able to access MSATS during the outage period.

Meter data processing and RM reports will not be available during the outage period.

User Rights Management (URM) will continue to operate, however the administration screens will not be accessible.

MSATS B2B Transactions and B2B MSATS Screens will be unavailable during this outage

NMI Discovery will not be available during the outage period.

CDR and CDP will not be available during the outage period.
Support Information:
Report any impacts to the AEMO Information and Support Hub or call 1300 236 600.
Please refer to https://aemo.service-now.com/participantportal?id=pp_services_status for any
planned/unplanned maintenance activities .

Change Number: CHG0081726
Notification issued to: Market Notice
Notification Type: Initial
Change Type: Normal
Service/ Component: MSATS - Business to Business data exchange
Change Title: Renewal of webMethods ESB server certificate
Change Start Date & Time: 10/12/2023 10:00:00 AEST
Change End Date & Time: 10/12/2023 14:00:00 AEST
Outage Start Date & Time: 10/12/2023 10:00:00 AEST
Outage End Date & Time: 10/12/2023 10:30:00 AEST
Environment: Production
Participant Impact and Requirements: webMethods ESB servers hosting the web services that are consumed by internal A2A Applications like eMDM, EMMS, MSATS etc. need to have their server certificates renewed to replace expiring ones.

The certificate with CN=act-i-inxesb.gasprod.aemo.local is due to expire and the renewed certificate must be installed to maintain TLS connection between ESB and other A2A applications.

Applications connecting to the webMethods ESB servers and using the ESB Public certificates may need to update their systems accordingly. There is no update to the Intermediate and Root certificates.

Also note, a brief outage is required to perform the change.
Support Information:
Report any impacts to the AEMO Information and Support Hub or call 1300 236 600.
Please refer to https://aemo.service-now.com/participantportal?id=pp_services_status for any
planned/unplanned maintenance activities .

Change Number: CHG0082097
Notification issued to: Market Notice
Notification Type: Initial
Change Type: Normal
Service/ Component: EMMS - Dispatch
Change Title: P3062 Manifestly Incorrect Inputs (MII) Production Release
Change Start Date & Time: 06/12/2023 08:00:00 AEST
Change End Date & Time: 06/12/2023 17:30:00 AEST
Outage Start Date & Time:
Outage End Date & Time:
Environment: Production
Participant Impact and Requirements: Under this change , AEMO will install an updated version of a key Dispatch application (NEMDE Solutionloader) used in Production for Dispatch, 5-Minute Pre-dispatch, Pre-dispatch, and 7-Day Pre-dispatch.

Changes include:
o Extension of Automated MII Procedures to include detection of FCAS MIIs using an FCAS requirement threshold.

No outages or delays expected. AEMO will advise once complete.
Support Information:
Report any impacts to the AEMO Information and Support Hub or call 1300 236 600.
Please refer to https://aemo.service-now.com/participantportal?id=pp_services_status for any
planned/unplanned maintenance activities .

Change Number: CHG0082118
Notification issued to: Market Notice
Notification Type: Initial
Change Type: Normal
Service/ Component: Network Outage Scheduler
Change Title: Planned System Maintenance activity.
Change Start Date & Time: 07/12/2023 12:00:00 AEST
Change End Date & Time: 07/12/2023 12:30:00 AEST
Outage Start Date & Time: 07/12/2023 12:00:00 AEST
Outage End Date & Time: 07/12/2023 12:30:00 AEST
Environment: Production
Participant Impact and Requirements: Network Outage Schedular (NOS) will be out of service during the maintenance activity. Please log off from NOS website during the outage. Users will have to log back in once the outage is completed. Please contact your NOS admin or AEMO support hub if your NOS account has been locked out after this change.
Support Information:
Report any impacts to the AEMO Information and Support Hub or call 1300 236 600.
Please refer to https://aemo.service-now.com/participantportal?id=pp_services_status for any
planned/unplanned maintenance activities .

Change Number: CHG0081712
Notification issued to: Market Notice
Notification Type: Initial
Change Type: Normal
Service/ Component: Electricity Market Management System
Change Title: EMMS Production Systems will be transferred to the alternative datacentre for maintenance activities .
Change Start Date & Time: 04/12/2023 08:00:00 AEST
Change End Date & Time: 06/12/2023 17:30:00 AEST
Outage Start Date & Time: 05/12/2023 13:25:00 AEST
Outage End Date & Time: 05/12/2023 13:30:00 AEST
Environment: Production
Participant Impact and Requirements: The maintenance activity is not expected to have any impact however delays to Dispatch cycles, bid submission, and outage to the AEMO Markets Portal are possible during the outage window on Tuesday 5th December around 13:25 to 13:30 AEST


Support Information:
Report any impacts to the AEMO Information and Support Hub or call 1300 236 600.
Please refer to https://aemo.service-now.com/participantportal?id=pp_services_status for any
planned/unplanned maintenance activities .

Update: Outage time has been amended

Change Number: CHG0081942
Notification issued to: Market Notice
Type: Initial
Change Type: Normal

Service/ Component: Electricity Market Management System
Change Title: Critical Maintenance of Wholesale Electricity and Gas Applications
Change Start Date & Time: 28/11/2023 14:00:00 AEST
Change End Date & Time: 29/11/2023 17:30:00 AEST
Outage Start Date & Time: 28/11/2023 15:30:00 AEST
Outage End Date & Time: 28/11/2023 18:30:00 AEST
Environment: Production
Participant Impact and Requirements:
Critical Maintenance of Wholesale Electricity and Gas Applications

Maintenance of authentication services may impact login and authentication to the following Wholesale Electricity and Gas Systems:
-AEMO Markets Portal
-API requests
-FTP Data Interchange submissions
-Network Outage Scheduler (NOS)

Note this includes:
-energy offers and submissions (Energy & FCAS Bids), viewing/submission of Settlement and Prudential information, submission of forecasting availability or reporting for EMMS
-API requests and submissions via Markets Portal for GBB, PCT/DAA, DWGM CC Auction
An outage may occur between 15:30 - 18:30 AEST of up to 15 minutes.

During the outage,
-users will not be able to have new login sessions into NOS or EMMS WebPortal. Users who are already logged in are not expected to be impacted.
-FTP sessions will still be available, however security errors may occur validating transactions during the outage, participants may need to resubmit these.

AEMO recommends users who need to use these services to
-login if possible, prior to the start of the outage and remain logged in. If you log out during the outage you may not be able to log back in until the completion of the outage.
-try to avoid accessing the systems during this window if possible

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

Update: Outage time has been amended

Change Number: CHG0081965
Notification issued to: Market Notice
Notification Type: Initial
Type: Normal
Service/Component: MSATS - Consumer Administration and Transfer Solution(CATS)
Title: MSATS and URM Production Maintenance activity

Change Start Date & Time: 28/11/2023 13:00:00 AEST
Change End Date & Time: 28/11/2023 21:00:00 AEST
Outage Start Date & Time: 28/11/2023 15:30:00 AEST
Outage End Date & Time: 28/11/2023 18:30:00 AEST

The change may cause some login outages impacting participants logging into the web portal for MSATS, OPDMS, NOS and EMMS production environments.
AEMO recommends users who need to use these AEMO services, 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 outage. A URM outage may occur between 15:30 - 18:30 AEST and have an expected outage duration of up to 15 minutes. During this time users will not be able to have new login sessions into TMM, OPDMS, NOS or EMMS WebPortal. Users who are already logged in are not expected to be impacted.

Participants should be aware that:
o MSATS, Meter data processing, RM reports, B2B, B2M screen, NMI Discovery, CDR, CDP will not be available
o Production participant passwords will be retained.
o Users that log out and users that try to log in once the URM outage has commenced will only be able to log in after URM outage is complete. Users that are already logged in before the outage will not be impacted.
o Any password resets or new account creations completed during the URM outage window will need to be redone.
o MSATS Server FTP sessions will strill work, however transactions may have security validation errors, and need to be resubmitted
o The redirection menu will be unavailable during the MSATS outage timeframe - https://menu.prod.nemnet.net.au

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

AEMO ELECTRICITY MARKET NOTICE

SERVICE DEGRADATION - ALERT

The MSATS Electricity B2B system is experiencing increased latency for B2B messages.

AEMO is working on the issue and will provide an update when the performance issue has been fixed.

For further enquiries please contact the AEMO Support Hub

Phone: 1300 236 600

Email: supporthub@aemo.com.au