The following systems and services will be impacted for up to 5 hours within the outage window. Note: In the event of a rollback, the entire outage window may be utilised.
Retail Service Provider (RSP – Customer) impacts:
• Assure Portal/Assurance API: Unable to test a service or log faults for fibre and copper ASIDs. • Line test API: RSP’s consuming the line test API directly will be unable to test fibre/copper services. • Network Performance Portal: Updates will be delayed for customer impacting services on the Chorus network. • Copper Provisioning: any new service orders or updates on existing services during the database update may return an error. • The Network Events website will not display any events. • The Network Events API may return an error when trying to pull details of an event. • Any planned or unplanned network e-mail notifications will not be processed during the upgrade period.
Where service faults present a civil or medical emergency, Chorus standard escalation procedures apply.
Service Company Impacts:
• TechMate: Unable to test Fibre/Copper services. • FRE Portal (Fault Management Portal): Unable to submit/search existing tickets • WRM (Work Request Manager) API: the WRM API will error and notification updates will be delayed. WRM features that will be impacted: Appointment Failures – Assurance 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
This urgent release needs to be carried out on the date specified due to end-of-life support with a third-party supplier.
Posted May 20, 2026 - 17:03 NZST
This scheduled maintenance affects: APIs (Assurance API, Line Test API - Fibre Services, Line Test API - Copper Services, Network Events API, Network Performance API), Service Partner Websites and APIs (Tech Mate (Testing Fibre Services), Tech Mate (Testing Copper Services), WRM (Appointments), WRM (Work)), and Websites (Assurance (Testing Fibre Services), Assurance (Testing Copper Services), Network Performance, Network Events).