User Rights Management (URM)

The user rights management system (URM User Rights Management; see the Guide to URM on AEMO's website) controls access for Participant Users to AEMO Australian Energy Market Operator's Markets Portal Web applications for registered participants only. Requires access to MarketNet. applications.

The Participant ID Registered participant identifier; A company can have more than one Participant ID.'s PA Participant Administrator. Super-users who manage and perform system administration tasks for their own organisation’s participant users. is responsible for the management of their participant user’s access to AEMO’s systems with the exception of the PA right that is set up during registration.

The primary IT security contact (as nominated on the participant ID’s registration form) is the initial PA who can set up another Participant User A Participant ID's users created and maintained by the Markets Portal PA in the URM. with the same access rights (that is, another PA), unlock accounts, create new temporary passwords, and make participant users inactive.

AEMO’s pre-production and production systems are independently controlled, so you can have different credentials for each, even though they may initially be the same.

User interaction with AEMO’s systems requires secure (HTTPS Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure, adds the security capabilities of SSL to standard HTTP communications.) access to AEMO’s private network, MarketNet AEMO's private VPN for Registered Participants. A network of more than 300 registered participants in the National Electricity Market, including market generators, transmission network service providers, distribution network service providers, and market customers. with a login and appropriate access rights, see Data Network Connection MarketNet.

Set participant function

A company having multiple ABNs may have several participant IDs. The set participant function in AEMO's Markets Portals allows participant users to have a single user ID to perform work for multiple participant IDs without logging out and logging back in again.

AEMO has made the use of single user ID logins available on the understanding that each participant is responsible for the management of the accesses granted to each user. Security is every user’s concern and each participant administrator has a role in establishing and maintaining effective control of access to sensitive information.

For help, see Setting a Participant.