NOTICE DATE:  February 9, 2011
NOTICE TYPE:  M-B020911-01 Outage Retail/Wholesale
SHORT DESCRIPTION:  Intermittent database outage with impacted services
INTENDED AUDIENCE:  ERCOT Market Participants
DAY AFFECTED:  February 8, 2011
LONG DESCRIPTION:  ERCOT experienced a database outage on February 8, 2011, from approximately 19:56 until 20:36. The database is back up and running properly.
During the outage, Market Participants may have experienced issues with the following services:
*         Report publishing to the ERCOT Market Information System (MIS)
*         Downloading of extracts and reports from TML Report Explorer, PI API, MIS and External Web Services (EWS)
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:  The following reports failed to post on February 8, 2011, for the intervals listed below. These reports/intervals do not have retry functionality; therefore they will not be rerun/reposted to the MIS.
Hourly Reports

EMIL ID

Report ID

Intervals Missed

# Intervals Missed

Temporarily Removed Contingencies

NP5-649-CD

12352

08/02/2011 20:00 - 08/02/2011 21:00

1

Shift Factors

SYS-608-CD

12354

08/02/2011 20:00 - 08/02/2011 21:00

1

5 Minute Reports

EMIL ID

Report ID

Intervals Missed



State Estimator Load Report - Individual Load on Electrical Buses

NP6-621-CD

12355

08/02/2011 20:45 - 08/02/2011 20:50

1

State Estimator Load Report - Load by Electrical Bus by Load Zone

NP6-623-CD

12356

08/02/2011 20:45 - 08/02/2011 20:50

1

State Estimator Load Report - Total System Load on Electrical Buses

NP6-624-CD

12357

08/02/2011 20:45 - 08/02/2011 20:50

1

State Estimator Load Report - Total ERCOT Generation

NP6-625-CD

12358

08/02/2011 20:00 - 08/02/2011 20:05,
08/02/2011 20:25 - 08/02/2011 20:50

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The MIS Dashboards and ercot.com price displays were not populated with data during this timeframe.
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