System Status
System Status
The purpose of this interface is to provide the means to verify that a connection can be established with the ERCOT web services through a simple status check. The request message would use the following message fields:
| Message Element | Value |
|---|---|
| Header/Verb | get |
| Header/Noun | SystemStatus |
| Header/Source | Market participant ID |
| Header/UserID | ID of user |
The corresponding response messages would use the following message fields:
| Message Element | Value |
|---|---|
| Header/Verb | reply |
| Header/Noun | SystemStatus |
| Header/Source | ERCOT |
| Header/Revision | Identifies current version of interfaces |
| Reply/ReplyCode | Reply code, success=OK, error=ERROR |
| Reply/Error | Error message, if error encountered |
| Reply/Timestamp | Identifies current ERCOT local time |