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Planned IT Outages

All planned IT system outages are posted as soon as they are scheduled. Participants can view outage notification details for the same day, as well as outages planned in the future.

Outage Times Systems Description
October 13, 2018
09:20 - 09:40 EST Online IESO Due to planned outage Online IESO will not be available. This includes the following actions:
  • create a Notice of Disagreement (NOD)
  • create a Meter Trouble Report
  • Manage Meter Installation
  • Manage My Information
  • Manage Participation
  • Manage Enrolment Requests
  • Manage System Access
  • Submit Prudential Support Information
  • Update Organization

This also includes the following Reliability Compliance Tool actions:
  • Address Compliance Gap
  • Maintain Standards Library
  • Perform IESO Self Certification
  • Report Potential Standards Violation (IESO)
  • Report Potential Standards Violation (MP)
  • Request MP Self Certifications
RSS feeds for Advisory Notifications (Day 0 Advisory Notices, Day 1- 34 Advisory Notices, Emergency Advisory Notices) will stop publishing notices during the outage.
12:20 - 12:40 EST Online IESO Due to planned outage Online IESO will not be available. This includes the following actions:
  • create a Notice of Disagreement (NOD)
  • create a Meter Trouble Report
  • Manage Meter Installation
  • Manage My Information
  • Manage Participation
  • Manage Enrolment Requests
  • Manage System Access
  • Submit Prudential Support Information
  • Update Organization

This also includes the following Reliability Compliance Tool actions:
  • Address Compliance Gap
  • Maintain Standards Library
  • Perform IESO Self Certification
  • Report Potential Standards Violation (IESO)
  • Report Potential Standards Violation (MP)
  • Request MP Self Certifications
RSS feeds for Advisory Notifications (Day 0 Advisory Notices, Day 1- 34 Advisory Notices, Emergency Advisory Notices) will stop publishing notices during the outage.
14:20 - 14:40 EST Online IESO Due to planned outage Online IESO will not be available. This includes the following actions:
  • create a Notice of Disagreement (NOD)
  • create a Meter Trouble Report
  • Manage Meter Installation
  • Manage My Information
  • Manage Participation
  • Manage Enrolment Requests
  • Manage System Access
  • Submit Prudential Support Information
  • Update Organization

This also includes the following Reliability Compliance Tool actions:
  • Address Compliance Gap
  • Maintain Standards Library
  • Perform IESO Self Certification
  • Report Potential Standards Violation (IESO)
  • Report Potential Standards Violation (MP)
  • Request MP Self Certifications
RSS feeds for Advisory Notifications (Day 0 Advisory Notices, Day 1- 34 Advisory Notices, Emergency Advisory Notices) will stop publishing notices during the outage.
October 17, 2018
14:20 - 14:40 EST Dispatch Service Automated dispatch instructions sent via Dispatch Service will be unavailable. The IESO will manually dispatch by phone as necessary. The Dispatch Service Web UI users may get disconnected and will need to login and verify connected after the outage.
14:20 - 14:40 EST Message Exchange Loss of access to Message Exchange will result in the following applications being impacted:
  • Automated dispatch instructions will be unavailable. The IESO will manually dispatch by phone as necessary.
12:00 - 12:10 EST EMI EMI application used to submit bids, offers, schedules and forecast will be unavailable.EMI API application used to submit bids, offers, schedules and forecast will be unavailable.