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Change Active Notification URL

Change Active Notification URL

The purpose of this interface is to provide the means to request that ERCOT send notifications to the defined PRIMARY or BACKUP URL.

[!WARNING] This interface only permits the changing of which defined URL is used for Notifications. It does NOT support changing the values of the URLs themselves. Contact the ERCOT Service Desk to request edits to these URLs.

The following table describes the request parameters:

Message Element Value
Header/Verb Change
Header/Noun ActiveNotificationURL
Header/Source Market participant ID
Header/UserID ID of user
Request/Option See table below for a list of values
Option Value Description
Primary

Deprecated - will remove in a future release

Change Public URL to Primary

Backup

Deprecated - will remove in a future release

Change Public URL to Secondary

PublicPrimary Change Public URL to Primary
PublicBackup Change Public URL to Secondary
WANPrimary Change WAN URL to Primary
WANBackup Change WAN URL to Secondary
AllPrimary Change both Public and WAN URLs to Primary
AllBackup Change both Public and WAN URLs to Secondary

The corresponding response messages would use the following message fields:

Message Element Value
Header/Verb reply
Header/Noun ActiveNotificationURL
Header/Source ERCOT
Reply/ReplyCode Reply code, success=OK, error=ERROR
Reply/Error Error message, if error encountered
Reply/Timestamp Identifies current ERCOT local time