NOTICE DATE:  August 17, 2014

NOTICE TYPE: M-A062614-07 Release – Retail

SHORT DESCRIPTION:  Completion – Retail Release

INTENDED AUDIENCE:  All Market Participants

DAY AFFECTED:  06:00 through 21:00 Sunday, August 17, 2014

LONG DESCRIPTION: The ERCOT planned maintenance outage completed at approximately 16:00, Sunday, August 17, 2014.

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].

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NOTICE DATE:  August 15, 2014                                                        

NOTICE TYPE: M-A062614-06 Release – Retail

SHORT DESCRIPTION: Action Required - Change of MarkeTrak Access Information

INTENDED AUDIENCE:  ERCOT Market Participants

DAY AFFECTED:  06:00 through 21:00 Sunday, August 17, 2014

LONG DESCRIPTION:  ERCOT has a Retail Release planned for 06:00 through 21:00 Sunday, August 17, 2014. MarkeTrak Project PR010_03 is scheduled for production implementation in this release.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:  During this outage, the following functions will be affected:

• Market participants utilizing NAESB to send/receive transactions to/from ERCOT will NOT be able to send/receive transactions to/from ERCOT
• 867 Transactions will NOT be forwarded during the outage
• 997 Functional Acknowledgements will NOT be sent during the outage
• MarkeTrak will be unavailable for the duration of the outage
• Retail components of the MIS and the Retail API will not be available
• Retail Reports and Extracts may be impacted
• MPIM will not be available
• eService application will be unavailable on the Market Information System (MIS)

ACTION REQUIRED: The URL, public IP address, and port for the MarkeTrak GUI will be changing with this release.  Market Participants should use https://mis.ercot.com/marketrak/tmtrack.dll to access the MarkeTrak GUI effective at the conclusion of the maintenance window. 

The public IP address and port change could impact market participants’ ability to access the GUI.

New Public IP: 66.128.17.84

Former Public IP: 66.128.17.187

New Port: 443

Former Port: 8443

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].

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