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Eurex has optimised the failover mechanism for the Eurex FIX Gateway. Activation of the optimised Eurex FIX Gateway software is scheduled for 16 January 2013 in simulation and 28 January 2013 in production.
Description of the new failover mechanism:
A FIX session may be initiated by the participant via all available connections. Both participant ports on the primary and the secondary FIX Gateway are open simultaneously. Each FIX session may only be logged in once via one of the connections. Per default only the primary FIX Gateway is connected to the market back-end.
Further details of the FIX Gateway Failover Mechanism are contained in the updated documentation “Eurex FIX Gateway - FIX 4.2 Manual” or “Eurex FIX Gateway - FIX 4.4 Manual”, chapter 4.3, which can be downloaded from the Eurex website www.eurexchange.com under the following path:
Technology > New trading architecture > System Documentation > Trading Interfaces >
Eurex FIX Gateway
Participants are asked to test a Network Failover on their side at any point in time in simulation starting 16 January 2013.
Market Status ⓘ
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The market status window is an indication regarding the current technical availability of the trading system. It indicates whether news board messages regarding current technical issues of the trading system have been published or will be published shortly.
Please find further information about incident handling in the Emergency Playbook published on the Eurex webpage under Support --> Emergencies and safeguards. Detailed information about incident communication, market re-opening procedures and best practices for order and trade reconciliation can be found in the chapters 4.2, 4.3 and 4.5, respectively. Concrete information for the respective incident will be published during the incident via newsboard message.
We strongly recommend not to take any decisions based on the indications in the market status window but to always check the production news board for comprehensive information on an incident.
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