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NOTICE DATE: March 12, 2014
NOTICE TYPE: M-A031114-06 Unplanned Outage
SHORT DESCRIPTION: Update - Unplanned Outage of some ERCOT systems
INTENDED AUDIENCE: ERCOT Market Participants
DAYS AFFECTED: March 11-12, 2014
LONG DESCRIPTION: ERCOT has completed the transition of the impacted systems and affected services to the alternate data center and Retail Transaction Processing is now operational. ERCOT will continue to monitor performance and update Market Participants as needed.
Further details will be provided during the 2:00 PM market call.
Toll Free Number: 1-877-668-4493
Meeting Number: 651 224 232
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 email at [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>.
If you are receiving email from an ERCOT distribution list that you no longer wish to receive, please follow this link in order to unsubscribe from this list: http://lists.ercot.com.

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NOTICE DATE: March 12, 2014
NOTICE TYPE: M-A031114-05 Unplanned Outage
SHORT DESCRIPTION: Update - Unplanned Outage of some ERCOT systems
INTENDED AUDIENCE: ERCOT Market Participants
DAYS AFFECTED: March 11-12, 2014
LONG DESCRIPTION: ERCOT has completed the transition of the impacted systems and affected services to the alternate data center and expects Retail Transaction Processing to be operational this afternoon.
Business verification of all impacted systems is in progress on the following market-facing systems:

* Retail Transaction Processing

* Service Requests

* MPIM

* MarketTrak API

* MIS Retail
ERCOT will provide an update on the recovery from the outage including the timing on resumption of retail transaction processing at a conference call with Market Participants scheduled for 2:00 PM.

Toll Free Number: 1-877-668-4493
Meeting Number: 651 224 232
Market Management System (MMS), Energy Management System (EMS), Outage Scheduler (OS), ERCOT.com and the Market Information System (MIS) are functioning and accessible.
AMS meter data and LSE file processing:
ERCOT systems currently have over 99.9% of the AMS Meter Data loaded for the next two initial settlement runs. Data aggregation will run for Operating Day March 7, 2014 tonight (March 12, 2014) and for Operating Day March 8, 2014 tomorrow night (March 13, 2014).
The ERCOT data loading process for AMS meter data LSE files is self-regulating and has a two-step process. In the first step, files are loaded from the NAESB servers to Lodestar. This logic is threaded by TDSP and DOES NOT look at time or date loaded. The process continually looks for files and moves the files to Lodestar. Upon restoration of ERCOT Systems, if a TDSP desires to have older data loaded into ERCOT systems first, the AMS Meter LSE file submittals should be staggered by 30 minutes to allow for processing time between the files (i.e. submit data for operating date March 9, 2014, then wait 30 minutes before submitting data for operating day March 10, 2014 and so on). In the second step, Lodestar loads files in the order they are received from NAESB.
ACTION REQUIRED: When ERCOT resumes processing through the alternate data center, ERCOT will change the public IP addresses of some market facing services. This change could impact market participants' ability to access those services, or receive responses from them.
NOTE: All Market Participants that transmit files via NAESB must ensure their systems can send and receive transactions from the new IP addresses.
The specific changes to the services are listed below.

MarkeTrak
https://marketrak.ercot.com:8443/tmtrack/tmtrack.dll - no URL change
Former Public IP: 66.128.17.187
New Public IP: 66.128.16.157
Port: 8443 - no change

NAESB
https://naesb.ercot.com:7403/ipnet/naesb - no URL change
Former Public IP: 66.128.17.102
New Public IP: 66.128.16.102
Port: 7403 - no change

FTP Replacement Script
https://b2b.ercot.com:44337/servlet/b2b/ebxml-100 - no URL change
Former Public IP: 66.128.17.102
New Public IP: 66.128.16.102
Port: 44337 - no change

ERCOT Retail FTP
retailtch.ercot.com - no URL change
Former Public IP: 66.128.17.162
New Public IP: 66.128.16.162

ETOD
https://etod.ercot.com/ - no URL change
Former Public IP: 66.128.17.159
New Public IP: 66.128.16.172

Market Participants are encouraged to contact the ERCOT Help Desk at (512) 248-6800 for any performance issues that they experience.

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 email at [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>.
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NOTICE DATE: March 12, 2014
NOTICE TYPE: M-A031114-04 Unplanned Outage
SHORT DESCRIPTION: Update - Unplanned Outage of some ERCOT systems
INTENDED AUDIENCE: ERCOT Market Participants
DAYS AFFECTED: March 11-12, 2014
LONG DESCRIPTION: ERCOT continues efforts to transition the impacted systems and affected services to the alternate data center. Systems are not yet fully restored.
An update will be provided during the 9:00 AM market call.
Toll Free Number: 1-877-668-4493
Meeting Number: 653 730 383
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 email at [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>.
If you are receiving email from an ERCOT distribution list that you no longer wish to receive, please follow this link in order to unsubscribe from this list: http://lists.ercot.com.

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NOTICE DATE: March 11, 2014
NOTICE TYPE: M-A031114-03 Unplanned Outage
SHORT DESCRIPTION: Update - Unplanned Outage of some ERCOT systems
INTENDED AUDIENCE: ERCOT Market Participants
DAY AFFECTED: March 11, 2014
LONG DESCRIPTION: ERCOT continues efforts to transition the impacted systems and affected services to the alternate data center. Systems are not expected to be fully restored prior to the start of business tomorrow, March 12, 2014. An update will be provided during tomorrow's 9:00 AM Market Call.

Toll Free Number: 1-877-668-4493

Meeting Number: 653 730 383

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Pursuant to Protocol Section 9.1.4, Settlement Statement and Invoice Timing, ERCOT has posted Settlement Statements and Invoices that were due to post by midnight today.
Answers to the ERCOT action items from today's 3:30 PM Retail Market call are:

1. Date Processing:
A Same Day Switch transaction will be processed for the date the transaction was received in the registration system. The transaction needs to be processed before the end of Retail Business Hours in order for it to be processed the same day. ERCOT does not change the dates on these transactions. If the market participant sends a transaction with a specified date and time then it will be processed for that date in the system.

2. Backlog Processing:
Transactions will be processed pursuant to Protocol Section 15 (6), Customer Registration.

3. As information becomes available, the public IP addresses of some market facing services may change and will be provided at that time. This change could impact market participants' ability to access those services, or receive responses from them.

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NOTICE DATE: March 11, 2014
NOTICE TYPE: M-A031114-02 Unplanned Outage
SHORT DESCRIPTION: Unplanned Outage of some ERCOT systems
INTENDED AUDIENCE: ERCOT Market Participants
DAY AFFECTED: March 11, 2014
LONG DESCRIPTION: ERCOT continues to experience an outage of some market-facing services. Affected services are currently being transitioned to the alternate data center. During this transition, various Retail and Market Data Transparency systems may be unavailable.
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]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>.
If you are receiving e-mail from an ERCOT distribution list that you no longer wish to receive, please follow this link in order to unsubscribe from this list: http://lists.ercot.com<http://lists.ercot.com/>.

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NOTICE DATE: March 11, 2014
NOTICE TYPE: M-A031114-01 Unplanned Outage
SHORT DESCRIPTION: Unplanned Outage of some ERCOT systems
INTENDED AUDIENCE: ERCOT Market Participants
DAY AFFECTED: March 11, 2014
LONG DESCRIPTION: ERCOT is currently experiencing an outage of the following market-facing services:

* Retail Transaction Processing

* Customer Registration

* ERCOT.com

* Market Information Services (MIS) - Retail only

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]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>.
If you are receiving e-mail from an ERCOT distribution list that you no longer wish to receive, please follow this link in order to unsubscribe from this list: http://lists.ercot.com<http://lists.ercot.com/>.