Entities

Entities Entities are the individual components or building blocks that represent individual pieces of functionality. The main menu options are examples of individual Entities. Entities can be of type “batch” (submitting change requests using the Batch Handlers) or “interactive” (using AEMO’s web portal). are the individual components or building blocks of AEMO Australian Energy Market Operator's participant systems and they represent individual pieces of functionality. Some examples of Entities are the menu options available on the main menus. Entities have two right types:

• Batch A right type assigned to a participant user by their participant administrator to access a Batch (file) application: transactions using the file interface (Participant File Server The publishing point from AEMO systems to participant systems. Each participant is allocated an account and access to private and public areas. Participants are responsible for interfacing with the participant file server.).
• Interactive A right type assigned to a participant user by their participant administrator to access a Web Application or API: access to the MSATS Market Settlement and Transfer Solutions. The procedures published by AEMO under clause 7.2.8 of the National Electricity Rules, which include those governing the recording of financial responsibility for energy flows at a connection point, the transfer of that responsibility between market participants, and the recording of energy flows at a connection point., EMMS Energy Market Management System (formerly MMS); software, hardware, network and related processes. or API Application Programming Interface; a set of clearly defined methods of communication between various software components. web portal and web services.

AEMO System Administrators create entity privileges and assign them to registered participant PAs. PAs assign these Entities to rights that they then assign to their participant users.

The rights that an AEMO System Administrator Creates the initial participant administrator ID with the PA right assigned, for each organisation. assigns to a PA Participant Administrator. Super-users who manage and perform system administration tasks for their own organisation’s participant users. determine the list of Entities that are visible to that PA. PAs cannot assign an entity privilege they are not assigned themselves. Privileges The create, read, update, delete, or execute privileges assigned to a Right. These privileges set the access rights, for example the ability to create or edit a participant record as opposed to just viewing rights to the participant record. relate to the create, read, update, delete, or execute features of an entity.

The types of Entities displayed depend on the type of right chosen—batch, interactive, or both. If the selection changes, the screen refreshes to display the appropriate Entities. For example, selecting the interactive entity refreshes the screen and does not display the Batch Entities.