NOTICE DATE:  February 16, 2009         

NOTICE TYPE:  M-A021609-01 - Outage- Retail/ Wholesale      

SHORT DESCRIPTION:  ERCOT experienced an unplanned outage of the production NAESB Proxy server on February 15, 2009 from 1:24 PM to 2:38 PM and of the legacy File Transfer Protocol (FTP) replacement script proxy server on February 15, 2009 from 1:24 PM to 5:12 PM.

INTENDED AUDIENCE:  All Market Participants

DAY AFFECTED:  February 15, 2009 from 1:24 PM to 5:12 PM

LONG DESCRIPTION:  ERCOT experienced an unplanned outage of the production NAESB Proxy server on February 15, 2009 from 1:24 PM to 2:38 PM and of the legacy File Transfer Protocol (FTP) replacement script proxy server on February 15, 2009 from 1:24 PM to 5:12 PM.  These outages were both due to scheduled maintenance that impacted the proxy servers for both NAESB and FTP replacement script.

During the outages, no EDI files were being sent or received by ERCOT.

All systems are now functioning properly.

CONTACT:  If you have any questions, please contact your ERCOT Account Manager.  You may also call the general ERCOT Client Services phone number at (512) 248-3900 or contact ERCOT Client Services via e-mail at [log in to unmask].

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