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NOTICE DATE:  March 1, 2019
NOTICE TYPE:  M-A030119-01 Release
SHORT DESCRIPTION:  Planned Maintenance on the Market Operations Test Environment (MOTE) and Retail Market Test Environment (RMTE)
INTENDED AUDIENCE:  ERCOT Market Participants
DAYS AFFECTED:  Wednesday, March 06, 2019; Wednesday, March 20, 2019
LONG DESCRIPTION:  On Wednesday, March 06, 2019 ERCOT will be performing maintenance on the Market Operations Test Environment (MOTE) and Retail Market Test Environment (RMTE) infrastructure that supports the following MOTE/RMTE User Interface at the URL below:

  *   (UI)             https://testmis.ercot.com
No outage or interruption of service is anticipated, and there will be no changes to any MOTE/RMTE applications.  Should you experience an issue with this test URL, please contact the ERCOT HelpDesk.
Additionally, on Wednesday, March 20, 2019, ERCOT will be disabling the following legacy URLs in MOTE/RMTE:

  *   (UI)                  https://testing.ercot.com
  *   (API)               https://testingapi.ercot.com
  *   (WAN API)     https://testingapi.wan.ercot.com

As stated in previous Market Notices<http://www.ercot.com/services/comm/mkt_notices/archives/search?nc=releases&per=&pg=&q=mote%2Frmte&sort>, the MOTE/RMTE URLs that Market Participants should be utilizing for testing are:

  *   (UI)                  https://testmis.ercot.com
  *   (API)               https://testmisapi.ercot.com
  *   (WAN API)     https://testmisapi.wan.ercot.com

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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