The following systems and services will be impacted for up to 1.5 hours within the outage window. This activity will involve two separate outages of approximately 45 minutes each, required to fail the backend system over to the disaster recovery (DR) server and then fail the system back to the primary server after validation and testing have been completed.
The initial outage, during which the system will be failed over to the DR server, is expected to occur between 26/05 23:00 and 27/05 00:30. The second outage, to fail the system back to the primary server, is expected between 27/05 01:30 and 03:00.
The timing of the failback activity is dependent on the successful completion and validation of the primary environment failover. As a result, the failback may commence earlier or later than the indicative timeframe outlined above.
Note: In the event of any unplanned issues, the entire outage window may be utilised for troubleshooting, remediation or extended verification.
Retail Service Provider (RSP – Customer) impacts:
Some features will be unavailable for use: • Assurance Website & Assurance API Users will be able to retrieve service information and/or test a service, However users will be unable to log a fault. Updates on existing fault tickets will not process till after the change window.
Where service faults present a civil or medical emergency. Chorus standard escalation procedures apply.
Service Company Impacts:
Some features will be unavailable for use: • FRE Portal (Fault Management Portal) Unavailable for Copper FRE. WRM features that will be impacted: • 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.
Can we please ask that all updates on fault tickets be held until after the completion of this planned Disaster Recovery test.
This is a planned Disaster Recovery test which is controlled and performed during a low usage window to minimise customer impact while validating system resilience.
Posted May 08, 2026 - 17:19 NZST
This scheduled maintenance affects: APIs (Assurance API) and Service Partner Websites and APIs (WRM (Appointments), WRM (Work), WRM (CAMS)).