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01 Feb 2021

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Eurex Exchange’s T7 Disaster Recovery Test on 17 April 2021

Eurex Circular 010/21 Eurex Exchange’s T7 Disaster Recovery Test on 17 April 2021

1.  Introduction

On Saturday, 17 April 2021, Eurex Exchange will offer a test scenario according to its T7 disaster recovery concept. This particular DR scenario will simulate a partial outage of the primary data centre facility (the co-location facility will remain up and running).

The DR test window will be available in the afternoon (Central European Summer Time) according to the following schedule:

Start of DR scenario test

14:00 CEST

End of DR scenario test

16:00 CEST

Start of production environment re-connect test

17:00 CEST

End of production environment re-connect test and shutdown of T7 production

18:00 CEST


The T7 production environment will be re-started for the business day 19 April 2021 on Sunday evening, 18 April 2021, at the usual time.


All information about this project can be found on our T7 Disaster Recovery Test initiative page.


2.  Required action

Participation in the T7 disaster Recovery Test is not only strongly recommend by Eurex but it is also seen as an essential part of the industry’s disaster recovery readiness. Please make sure that your Chief Operations Officer as well as your Chief Compliance Officer are made aware of the test and that it is treated with the required priority.

Eurex kindly requests all Eurex Trading Participants to take part in the T7 disaster recovery test from now on.

Participation will serve to ensure that all requirements and demands for the transition to the disaster recovery environment are met and that the necessary emergency procedures are in place and have been successfully executed on a regular basis. 

The validation of these emergency procedures is crucial for Eurex and its Trading Members not only to be compliant with the respective Business Continuity Processes but also to ensure continued market integrity.

All Trading Participants are kindly requested to provide Eurex with the respective feedback regarding their T7 Disaster Recovery Test planning by Friday, 26 February 2021 at the latest.

Feedback can be provided using the T7 Disaster Recovery Test Feedback Form. For your convenience an online submission process has been set up:

T7 Disaster Recovery Test Feedback Form

Please enter your dedicated Eurex PIN in the online questionnaire. The PIN for your company has been sent to the Central Coordinator.

3.  Details of the initiative

This particular DR scenario will simulate a partial outage of the primary Equinix data centre (FR2) facility. In such a disaster recovery scenario, Eurex Exchange’s T7 infrastructure regularly used for its T7 simulation will be re-used to serve as disaster recovery production infrastructure. However, the co-location facility will remain up and running and affected Members who have access to the DR data centre will be able to attend on the test.

During a DR test exercise, production reference data will be used, including User IDs, T7 GUI SSH keys and ETI sessions. Changes which have been made to this reference data will NOT be copied back to the production environment after the test. It is not advisable to perform any changes to this data during the test exercise.

While order entry, modification and deletion will be possible during the DR test exercise, any order book or trading information created during the DR test exercise will NOT be transferred back to the production environment.

The following Eurex T7 interfaces will be available during the DR test exercise:

  • Eurex T7 Trader- and Admin-GUI
  • Enhanced Transaction Interface (ETI)
  • New FIX LF Interface (back office session)
  • Eurex Market Data Interface (MDI)
  • Eurex Enhanced Market Data Interface (EMDI)
  • Enhanced Order Book Interface (EOBI)
  • Reference Data Interface (RDI)
  • Reference Data File (RDF) from production - provided on request 
  • Common Report Engine (CRE)

Trading Participants taking part in the DR test exercise can expect to receive market data via MDI, EMDI and EOBI, can read reference data via RDI or request RDF from Customer Technical Support (CTS). Order and quote entry will be possible via ETI and Trader GUI. 

The disaster recovery test exercise can be regarded as successful when the following two conditions have been met:

  • A message “Connection Test Eurex <hh:mm:ss>” appears with an increasing sequence number in the market news view (news board) of the T7 Trader GUI or the T7 Admin GUI OR a successful session or trader login via ETI has been performed.
  • EMDI/EOBI/RDI heartbeats have been received.

The following Eurex T7 interfaces will NOT be available during the DR test exercise:

  • Extended Market Data Service
  • Existing FIX Gateway Interface implementation - Please note: The new FIX LF Interface will be in scope

Eurex T7/FX will not participate in the DR test exercise as well as Eurex Clearing’s C7, therefore the FIXML Clearing Interface will NOT be available.

Deutsche Börse AG will also be offering a disaster recovery test opportunity for the trading venues Xetra and Börse Frankfurt on the same day, allowing both Eurex and Cash Markets Trading Participants to test DR scenarios simultaneously.

Please refer to the document “T7 Disaster Recovery Concept 2021 - Interface Configuration Details” for further details on the test scenario and all required network changes. The document will be available mid-February 2021 on the Eurex website www.eurex.com under the following links:

Trade > Tech > T7 Trading architecture > Release 9.0 > Network Access

Trade > Find > Initiatives > T7 Disaster Recovery Test

After the DR test has been completed, the regular production environment will be made available for a certain time period for a re-connect test in order to allow Trading Participants to adapt their configurations.

FIA Disaster Recovery Test

Please be aware that in addition to the above-mentioned DR test, Eurex T7 will also participate in the industry-wide Disaster Recovery (DR) test scenario on Saturday, 23 October 2021, organised by the Futures Industry Association (FIA). 
 

Further information

Recipients:

All Trading Participants of Eurex Deutschland and Vendors

Target groups:

Front Office/Trading, IT/System Administration, Auditing/Security Coordination

Contact:

Your Technical Key Account Manager using your VIP number or Customer Technical Support via e-mail to: cts@deutsche-boerse.com

Web:

T7 Disaster Recovery Test initiative page

Authorised by:

Wolfgang Eholzer


Market Status

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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. 

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