Update - The change mentioned below will be carried out under CO5886859 after 23:00 tonight.
The impacts for this change will be notified separately.

Sep 17, 2024 - 14:01 NZST
Identified - Technical teams advise that this issue is related to a change that was done earlier this week. A partial rollback of this change will be carried out after 23:00 tonight.

As a result, Netmap may be unavailable for up to 20 minutes after this time.

Next update when available.

Sep 17, 2024 - 10:54 NZST
Investigating - We have noticed an issue since 14:30 yesterday with iTools where ONT rehome orders are stuck and not progressing to the next stage.

All other orders are being processed as per BAU.

Technical teams are investigating the issue.

Sep 17, 2024 - 10:41 NZST
Websites ? Operational
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99.76 % uptime
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Assurance (Testing Fibre Services) ? Operational
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99.7 % uptime
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Assurance (Testing Copper Services) ? Operational
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Network Performance ? Operational
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Network Events ? Operational
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APIs ? Operational
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Assurance API ? Operational
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Line Test API - Fibre Services ? Operational
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Line Test API - Copper Services ? Operational
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99.75 % uptime
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Address Lookup API ? Operational
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Broadband Availability API ? Operational
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Broadband Checker Business API ? Operational
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Network Events API ? Operational
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Network Performance API ? Operational
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Remote Management Services API ? Operational
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100.0 % uptime
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Fibre - Place API ? Operational
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99.96 % uptime
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Fibre - Place API - EMMA ? Operational
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100.0 % uptime
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Fibre - Product Offering API ? Operational
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Fibre - Product Offering API - EMMA ? Operational
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100.0 % uptime
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Fibre - Order Feasibility API ? Operational
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99.95 % uptime
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Fibre - Order Feasibility API - EMMA ? Operational
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100.0 % uptime
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Fibre - Manage Appointment API ? Operational
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99.96 % uptime
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Fibre - Manage Appointment API - EMMA ? Operational
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100.0 % uptime
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Fibre - Manage Order API ? Operational
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Fibre - Manage Order API - EMMA ? Operational
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Service Partner Websites and APIs ? Operational
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Tech Mate (Testing Fibre Services) ? Operational
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Tech Mate (Testing Copper Services) ? Operational
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WRM (Appointments) Operational
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WRM (Work) Operational
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WRM (CWMS) Operational
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Chorus Planned ICT Event Notification: CO5886859 Sep 17, 2024 23:00 - Sep 18, 2024 02:00 NZST
The following systems/applications will be impacted for up to the entire duration of the change window:

Retail Service Provider (RSP – Customer) impacts:
• Chorus Portal (SSP): Maintenance pages enabled.
• Chorus Portal B2B: Maintenance response enabled.
• Fibre - Place API: Users will be unable to use the Place API to search for an address or location, retrieve a Place ID, request site information, view active products, open fibre orders and ONTs at the address or location.
• Fibre - Product Offering API: Users will be unable to use the Product Offering API to view available products at an address.
• Fibre - Order Feasibility API: Users will be unable to use the Order feasibility API to request a feasible check at an address or location.
• Fibre -Manage Order API: Users will be unable to use the Manage Order API to create, amend or cancel an order, and will be unable to retrieve attachments or notifications relating to an order via this API.
• Fibre - Manage Appointment API: Users will be unable to use the Manage Appointment API to check site visit and Ready For Service (RFS) appointment availability, reserve or reschedule site visits, reschedule RFS appointments or retrieve appointment details.
• Overnight ONT data into Chorus Portal will be impacted and not updated until the change has been completed.
• Assurance Website/Assurance API: Users will be unable to test Fibre services, however users will still be able to lodge fibre faults.
• Line Test API: Fibre line testing functionality will be unavailable.

Service Company Impacts:
Chorus Portal: Maintenance page enabled
TechMate: Users will be unable to test Fibre services. When searching on a Fibre ASID. error code 99 “Timeout, Server busy."
Netmap: Users may receive an error while carrying out feasibility requests.
WRM Impacts:
• RSP Initiated Appointments Management Unavailable – Fibre Fulfil
• RSP Initiated Work Request Management Unavailable – Fibre Fulfil
• RSP/Chorus Initiated Customer Order Management Unavailable
• Fibre COM initiated notification to Service Companies will not occur.
• Service Company based customer order updates from WRM to FCOM on to RSPs will be impacted.
• Work Request Manager Fibre Fulfil Updates to FCOM(are not impacted unless components in the COM are unavailable)


This emergency change is required to carry out a software rollback on a backend system.

Posted on Sep 17, 2024 - 14:08 NZST
Chorus Planned ICT Event Notification: CR5860305 Sep 19, 2024 23:00 - Sep 20, 2024 04:00 NZST
The following systems will be unavailable for up to 3 hours during the change window. However, in the event of a rollback the entire duration of the change window may be utilised.

• Chorus Portal (SSP): Maintenance page/response will be displayed.
• Chorus Portal B2B: Maintenance page/response will be displayed.
• Fibre - Place API: Users will be unable to search for an address or location, retrieve a Place ID, request site information, view active products, open fibre orders and ONTs at the address or location.
• Fibre – Product Offering API: Users will be unable to view available products at an address.
• Fibre – Order Feasibility API: Users will be unable to request a feasible check at an address or location.
• Fibre – Manage Order API: Users will be unable to use the Manage Order API to create, amend or cancel an order, and will be unable to retrieve attachments or notifications relating to an order via this API.
• Fibre – Manage Appointment API: Users will be unable to use the Manage Appointment API to check site visit and Ready For Service (RFS) appointment availability, reserve or reschedule site visits, reschedule RFS appointments or retrieve appointment details.
• Assurance Website/Assurance API: Users may be unable to log, view or manage Fibre & Copper faults and will be unable to perform any tests on Fibre & Copper services.
• Line Test API: Fibre & Copper line testing functionality may be unavailable.
• RMP (Remote Management Platform) & RMS Config API - Users will not be able to Provision, Assure, view or configure the status of an RGW ONT (generation 3, 4 and Hyperfibre ONT).
• Address Lookup API – Will be unavailable.
• Broadband Availability API - Will be unavailable.
• Broadband Checker Business API – Will be unavailable.
• Overnight ONT data load into Chorus Portal may be unavailable.
• Wireline/OOT & Wireline B2B may be unavailable.
• Chorus eSPM: Copper line testing functionality may be unavailable.
• Network Events Portal and Network Events API: Any new, update or clearance may not display.
• Planned and Unplanned Network Event Notifications (Whispir) may be impacted and will queue and process once connectivity is restored.
• Chorus Billing Portal (billing.chorus.co.nz) - users will be unable to raise or view Disputes and/or Enquiries for the duration of the planned outage.
• Network Performance Portal and API: The Portal will remain available for the duration of the change, however new events and existing event updates will not be visible until after the change is completed.
• Chorus Portal EMMA (Portal Emulator) - Maintenance page enabled
• EMMA B2B - Maintenance page enabled
• EMMA Fibre - Place API: Users will be unable to search for an address or location, retrieve a Place ID, request site information, view active products, open fibre orders and ONTs at the address or location.
• EMMA Fibre – Product Offering API: Users will be unable to view available products at an address.
• EMMA Fibre – Order Feasibility API: Users will be unable to request a feasible check at an address or location.
• EMMA Fibre – Manage Order API: Users will be unable to use the Manage Order API to create, amend or cancel an order, and will be unable to retrieve attachments or notifications relating to an order via this API.
• EMMA Fibre – Manage Appointment API: Users will be unable to use the Manage Appointment API to check site visit and Ready For Service (RFS) appointment availability, reserve or reschedule site visits, reschedule RFS appointments or retrieve appointment details.
• TechMate: Copper and fibre line testing will be unavailable.
• SCA (Service Company Appliance): Unavailable
• SAP: Service Partners will not be able to use inventory management (ordering of Spares) or carry out other activities via SAP.
• Netmap: Users may receive errors or while carrying out feasibility requests.

WRM:
• Appointment Failures – Assurance
• Appointment Failures – Fulfil
• Work Request Failures – Assurance
• Work Request Failures – Fulfil
• Customer Order Failures
• Service Company Notifications (Outbound)
• Service Company Notifications (Inbound)
• WRM updates for Assurance
• WRM updates for Fulfil
• Service Company Reschedules
• Service Company Capacity Updates
• Campaign Management
• Re-allocations
• View Work / Task
• Update work / schedule allocation
• Data Extracts

Where service faults present a civil or medical emergency, Chorus standard escalation procedures apply.

This change is required for security improvements on a backend system.

Posted on Aug 29, 2024 - 10:59 NZST
Retail Service Provider (RSP – Customer) impacts:

The following systems will be unavailable for up to 4 hours during the change window. However, in the event of a rollback the entire duration of the change window may be utilised.

• Chorus Portal EMMA (Portal Emulator) - Maintenance page enabled
• EMMA B2B - Maintenance page enabled
• EMMA Fibre - Place API: Users will be unable to search for an address or location, retrieve a Place ID, request site information, view active products, open fibre orders and ONTs at the address or location.
• EMMA Fibre – Product Offering API: Users will be unable to view available products at an address.
• EMMA Fibre – Order Feasibility API: Users will be unable to request a feasible check at an address or location.
• EMMA Fibre – Manage Order API: Users will be unable to use the Manage Order API to create, amend or cancel an order, and will be unable to retrieve attachments or notifications relating to an order via this API.
• EMMA Fibre – Manage Appointment API: Users will be unable to use the Manage Appointment API to check site visit and Ready For Service (RFS) appointment availability, reserve or reschedule site visits, reschedule RFS appointments or retrieve appointment details.

This planned outage is required to deploy a software release on a supporting system.

Posted on Sep 17, 2024 - 16:17 NZST
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Past Incidents
Sep 17, 2024

Unresolved incident: Chorus Unplanned ICT Event Notification: DC12683469.

Sep 16, 2024
Completed - The scheduled maintenance has been completed.
Sep 16, 06:00 NZST
In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
Sep 15, 21:01 NZST
Scheduled - The following services will be impacted within the outage window mentioned above:

Retail Service Provider (RSP – Customer) impacts:

• SPM will be unavailable.
• Wireline/OOT & Wireline B2B Broadband and Voice forms (including Voice PSD) will fail the workflow validation.
• Assurance website & Assurance API: Users will not be able to log Faults. Copper/ Fibre line testing functionality will be unavailable
• Line Test API: Copper / Fibre line testing functionality will be unavailable

Service Company Impacts:

The following system will lose copper / Fibre line testing functionality during the planned outage window:
• TechMate


This planned work is required for scheduled maintenance activity.

Sep 13, 10:00 NZST
Completed - The scheduled maintenance has been completed.
Sep 16, 05:00 NZST
In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
Sep 15, 21:00 NZST
Scheduled - The following systems and services will be impacted for up to 5 hours within the outage window. In the event of a rollback the entire outage window may be utilised:

• Chorus Portal (SSP): Maintenance pages enabled.
• Chorus Portal B2B: Maintenance response enabled.
• Fibre - Place API: Users will be unable to use the Place API to search for an address or location, retrieve a
Place ID, request site information, view active products, open fibre orders and ONTs at the address or
location.
• Fibre - Product Offering API: Users will be unable to use the Product Offering API to view available
products at an address.
• Fibre - Order Feasibility API: Users will be unable to use the Order feasibility API to request a feasible
check at an address or location.
• Fibre - Manage Order API: Users will be unable to use the Manage Order API to create, amend or cancel
an order, and will be unable to retrieve attachments or notifications relating to an order via this API.
• Fibre - Manage Appointment API: Users will be unable to use the Manage Appointment API to check site
visit and Ready For Service (RFS) appointment availability, reserve or reschedule site visits, reschedule RFS
appointments or retrieve appointment details.
• Overnight ONT data into Chorus Portal will be impacted and not updated until the change has been
completed.
• Assurance Website/Assurance API: Users will be unable to test fibre services, however users will still be
able to lodge fibre faults.
• Line Test API: Fibre line testing functionality will be unavailable.
• TechMate: Users will be unable to test Fibre services. When searching a Fibre ASID this will generate: error
code 99 timeout, server busy.
• Netmap: Users may receive an error while carrying out feasibility requests.
• WRM Impacts:
o RSP Initiated Appointments Management Unavailable – Fibre Fulfil
o RSP Initiated Work Request Management Unavailable – Fibre Fulfil
o RSP/Chorus Initiated Customer Order Management Unavailable
o Fibre COM initiated notification to Service Companies will not occur.
o Service Company based customer order updates from WRM to FCOM on to RSPs will be
impacted.
o Work Request Manager Fibre Fulfil Updates to FCOM (are not impacted unless components in
the COM are unavailable)

This planned outage is required for maintenance activities on a supporting system.

Aug 27, 12:30 NZST
Sep 15, 2024
Sep 14, 2024

No incidents reported.

Sep 13, 2024
Completed - The scheduled maintenance has been completed.
Sep 13, 04:00 NZST
In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
Sep 12, 23:00 NZST
Scheduled - The following services/systems may be impacted for up to the entire duration of the outage window:

• Chorus eSPM: Copper line testing functionality may be unavailable.
• Wireline/OOT may be unavailable.
• Wireline B2B may be unavailable.
• Assurance Website & Assurance API: Copper line testing functionality may be unavailable.
• Line Test API: Copper line testing functionality may be unavailable.
• TechMate: Copper line testing functionality may be unavailable.\

This planned outage is required to resolve an ongoing issue on backend hardware.

Sep 9, 13:25 NZST
Sep 12, 2024
Completed - The scheduled maintenance has been completed.
Sep 12, 06:00 NZST
In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
Sep 11, 23:00 NZST
Scheduled - The following systems/applications will be unavailable for up to 5 hours during the above outage window. In the event that a rollback is required, the entire window may be utilised:

Assurance website & Assurance API: Users will be able to retrieve service information and/test a service or log a fault. Updates on existing fault tickets will not process till after the change window.

FRE Portal (Fault Management Portal) – Unavailable for Copper FRE
WRM:
• Appointments Management Unavailable – Fibre & Copper Assure
• Work Request Management Unavailable – Fibre & Copper Assure
• Service Company Notifications for Assure (Outbound)
• Work Request Manager Updates for Assurance
Assurance: All new work requests or updates for fault tickets will not flow through to Service Companies or from Service Companies to Chorus Assure.

Service Manager / WRM Faults:
• Users may receive errors while trying to submit tickets.
• Users may be unable to receive any updates or clearances on any current inflight tickets.


This planned outage is required to carry out a database update on a supporting system.

Aug 16, 15:00 NZST
Sep 11, 2024
Sep 10, 2024
Completed - The scheduled maintenance has been completed.
Sep 10, 23:00 NZST
In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
Sep 10, 17:00 NZST
Scheduled - The following systems will be unavailable for up to 4 hours during the change window. However, in the event of a rollback the entire duration of the change window may be utilised.

• Chorus Portal EMMA (Portal Emulator) - Maintenance page enabled
• EMMA B2B - Maintenance page enabled
• EMMA Fibre - Place API: Users will be unable to search for an address or location, retrieve a Place ID, request site information, view active products, open fibre orders and ONTs at the address or location.
• EMMA Fibre – Product Offering API: Users will be unable to view available products at an address.
• EMMA Fibre – Order Feasibility API: Users will be unable to request a feasible check at an address or location.
• EMMA Fibre – Manage Order API: Users will be unable to use the Manage Order API to create, amend or cancel an order, and will be unable to retrieve attachments or notifications relating to an order via this API.
• EMMA Fibre – Manage Appointment API: Users will be unable to use the Manage Appointment API to check site visit and Ready For Service (RFS) appointment availability, reserve or reschedule site visits, reschedule RFS appointments or retrieve appointment details.

This planned outage is required to deploy a software release on a supporting system.

Aug 30, 16:07 NZST
Completed - The scheduled maintenance has been completed.
Sep 10, 00:59 NZST
In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
Sep 9, 23:00 NZST
Scheduled - The following systems and services will be impacted for up to the duration of the outage window:

• Assurance Website/Assurance API: Users will be unable to test Fibre services, however users will still be able to lodge fibre faults.
• Line Test API: Fibre line testing functionality will be unavailable.
• TechMate: Fibre line testing functionality will be unavailable.

This urgent planned outage is required to resolve an issue on a supporting server that is currently running at high CPU utilization. The restart is required to prevent an unplanned impacting incident.

Sep 9, 19:54 NZST
Sep 9, 2024
Sep 8, 2024

No incidents reported.

Sep 7, 2024

No incidents reported.

Sep 6, 2024
Resolved - Clearance at 10:57:
Technical teams have carried out remedial activities on the backend system restoring full functionality. Orders are now being processed as per BAU and the backlog has been cleared.

Sep 6, 13:37 NZST
Investigating - We are experiencing an issue since 20:30 yesterday with a backend system that is causing issues with end users trying to carry out ONT swaps, remote activation and path re-runs on model 300 or 400 ONTs. Orders can be submitted in Chorus Portal & Chorus Portal B2B but they may be delayed.
Sep 6, 09:52 NZST
Sep 5, 2024

No incidents reported.

Sep 4, 2024

No incidents reported.

Sep 3, 2024

No incidents reported.