CME will offer a second mandatory failover test.  This is to allow distributors that were not able to participate on 516/03 an opportunity to do so again.  During the last test, it did not appear that all distributors participated in this test.  We were especially looking to see a successful connection to the RDC for those that are not live at the RDC all the time.  It is critical that you test those connections.   If CME’s primary location (Wacker Drive) experiences a network failure and you are not prepared to receive data from the RDC you will be at a competitive disadvantage in providing CME data to your customers.   As well as all back-up, test and development logins have been removed from having access to our primary location.

Mandatory MDN Failover Test ~ 6/20/03

On Friday, June 20, 2003, at 4:45 p.m. Central Daylight Time, CME will conduct a mandatory failover test.  The purpose of this test is to ensure that in the case of an MDN outage at our primary facility (Wacker Drive); you can switch appropriately to the MDN supported out of the back-up facility at CME’s Remote Data Center (RDC). 

Details of the Test:

At approximately 4:45 p.m. (CDT), CME will bring down the MDN gateways at our Wacker (primary) location.   If your connection to the RDC is working properly, then you should continue to receive data from the RDC.  After a fifteen-minute period, we will bring up the MDN gateways at our primary location.  We will send line integrity verification messages over channel’s one, two and three during that time period.  On channel four you will see heartbeat messages.  This will give you the opportunity to make sure your back-up connections work in this situation.

Email Results:

We would like you to email us with your test results.  If you do not do so, we will have to assume that everything went well at your end and that you are prepared in the case of a network failure at our primary location.  The test results should be emailed to Marilee Radecki at mradecki@cme.com.

For questions regarding this notice, please contact one of the following individuals:

Marilee Radecki                      312-930-8193  mradecki@cme.com

Lisa Amato                              312-338-2654  lamato@cme.com