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ASX 24 Production Environment Business Continuity Testing – Saturday 27 February 2021

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Notice reference number: 0104.21.02
Date published: 03/02/21
Effective as of: 27/02/21
Last updated: 03/02/21

ASX will conduct a business continuity test in the production ASX 24 environment on Saturday 27 February 2021.  It is expected that all trading participants will participate in the test.

The test period will be from 13:00 to 17:00 AEDT. A connectivity window will be provided before transactions can be submitted.

The test is to confirm functionality during ASX 24 component fail over from the primary to secondary ASX site and to confirm connectivity is maintained when primary ASX Net connections are failed over.

What do I need to do by when?

  • Registrations via Appendix 1 should be completed and returned to ASX Customer Technical Support (CTS) by close of business on Friday 19 February 2021 to confirm participation for the test. CTS will not accept any registrations or confirmations of any connections to be used in the test beyond this date.
  • The test is limited to ASX 24 connections; there will be no access to Genium Clearing during the test period.
  • Access to ASX 24 multicast data protocol (MDP) will be enabled for the test. MDP users who do not want to participate in the test should ensure their sessions remain disconnected after ASX 24 end of day processes commence on Saturday 27 February 2021 until the conclusion of testing and the rollback is completed, ready for the earlier system start-up time of 13:00 Sunday 28 February 2021.
  • Configuration changes made during the test, including password changes, will be rolled back at the end of the test and will not be available in production on Monday 1 March 2021.
  • The trading date for transactions performed during the test will be Saturday 27 February 2021. These transactions will not be available on ASX 24 on Monday 1 March. Participants and vendors need to remove any 27 February transactions from their applications on completion of the test.
  • Timings and activities of the day will be published in real-time on the system status page.

Testing Schedule

Time

Requirement

13:00

ASX 24 logins enabled, connectivity window commences.

13:30

Market Segment

Pre-Open

Open

SFE Energy

13:30

13:40

SFE Interest Rate

13:45

13:55

SFE Index

14:00

14:10

SFE Commodities

14:15

14:25

 

14:30

First wave failover scenarios commence, markets remain in Open:

·       Failover of FIX order entry process 

·       Failover of FIX drop copy process

·       Failover of FIX market data process

·       Failover to secondary matching engine

·       Failure of channels A, C, J for Glance, Blink, and Multicast market data

ALC co-lo and ASX Net Global FIX order entry customers are required to failover from primary to secondary, then to tertiary gateways as part of the failover scenarios. ASX Net customers are only required to failover between primary and secondary gateways.

14:40

Second wave failover scenarios commence:

·       ALC co-lo and International: FIX order entry failover from secondary to tertiary gateways

·       ASX 24 matching engine failover from secondary to tertiary instance

·       Restart associated processes

Markets will be in Halt.

15:15

Market state changes following matching engine failovers from Halt to Pre-Open

Market Segment

Pre-Open

Open

Close

SFE Energy

15:15

15:25

16:00

SFE Interest Rate

15:30

15:40

16:30

SFE Index

15:45

15:55

16:30

SFE Commodities

16:00

16:10

16:30

 

16:00

ASX 24 Energy markets move to close

16:10

Database failover scenario - no action for participants

Internal network failovers - no action for participants

Participant test activities conclude, customers to advise test results.

Customers must confirm readiness for Monday from this point.

16:30

ASX 24 markets close

17:00

Logins disabled; testing complete


Test Confirmation

On completion of the test, customers must email CTS their test status, advising of either a successful completion or a list of outstanding issues.

ASX intends to have all failover scenarios completed as early as possible in the test schedule to allow customers to complete their validation. The remaining test window is to allow for ASX internal system validations separate to the failover scenarios.

Confirmations can be sent as soon as these scenarios have been completed on the day, but should be sent by no later than 17:00 AEDT.

The ASX 24 platform will start up earlier than usual on Sunday 28 February at 13:00 to facilitate any early connectivity testing.

It is suggested that where required test participants liaise with their vendors prior to the test to ensure readiness.

Need more information?

Issued by

Ben Jackson – General Manager, Market Operations

Contact information

Customer Technical Support
+61 (02) 9227 0372 | 1800 663 053
cts@asx.com.au

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