Explanation
Momentary outages are very short-term outages where an outage event is sent and a restoration event is received in less than a few minutes. These outages may not requireany action from the utility and may be ignored for reporting or analysis purposes. According to the Oracle Utilities Meter Solution Cloud Service Business User Guide, two system components that can be configured to ignore momentary outages are:
* Device events: These are events that are sent by smart meters to indicate various conditions or situations, such as outages, tampering, or alarms. Device events can be configured with a minimum duration parameter that specifies the minimum time difference between an event start and an event end for the event to be processed. If the event duration is less than the minimum duration, the event is ignored.
* Activities: These are tasks that are created by the system or by users to perform various actions, such as meter reading, installation, or maintenance. Activities can be configured with a momentary outage threshold parameter that specifies the maximum time difference between an outage event and a restoration event for the activity to be created. If the outage duration is less than the momentary outage threshold, no activity is created.
References: Oracle Utilities Meter Solution Cloud Service Business User Guide, Chapter 5: Device Management, Section 5.2: Device Events; Chapter 6: Device Installations, Section 6.4: Activities

Explanation
To validate high or low tolerances such that exceeding in either direction must not allow the reading to be finalized, and also apply all other validation rules that are configured, you should configure critical as the exception severity in Validation, Estimation, and Editing (VEE) rules. An exception severity is an attribute that indicates how severe an exception is when a measurement fails a VEE rule. Critical is an exception severity that prevents a measurement from being finalized until it is corrected or overridden by a user.
Issues is not an exception severity that can be configured in VEE rules. Issues is an attribute that indicates if there are any unresolved exceptions or errors for a measurement.
Terminate is not an exception severity that can be configured in VEE rules. Terminate is an action that can be performed by a VEE rule when a measurement fails the rule. Terminate means that the VEE process stops and does not apply any further VEE rules to the measurement.
Informational is not an exception severity that can be configured in VEE rules. Informational is an attribute that indicates if there are any informational messages or warnings for a measurement.

Explanation
To create Smart Grid Gateway Payload Processing extendable lookup values, you should configure the Events Set Parser and Set Transformer methods in the User Exit Interceptors section. These methods are used to parse and transform event data from payload files into a common format that can be processed by Oracle Utilities Meter Data Management.
You do not need to configure Get Parser and Get Transformer methods, which are used to parse and transform measurement data from payload files. You do not need to configure SOAPSNDR and RTHTTPSNDR methods, which are used to send SOAP or HTTP messages to external systems. You do not need to configure Initial Measurements and Device methods, which are used to initialize measurement data and device information from payload files.

Explanation
A service point is a record that represents a physical location where a utility provides service to a customer. A service point can have one or more devices associated with it to measure the usage of the service. A device is a record that represents a physical meter or other equipment that records usage data. A device can have one or more measuring components associated with it to represent different types of usage data, such as interval, time of use, or scalar. According to the Oracle Utilities Meter Data Management Business User Guide, to set up a configuration that allows service points to be used with various meters and support interval, time of use, and scalar devices, one way to meet this requirement is:
* Configure one service point, one device, and three measuring components to be related to the service point as required by the data scenarios. This can be done by creating a service point record and associating it with a device record that represents the meter. Then, creating three measuring component records that represent different types of usage data (interval, time of use, and scalar) andassociating them with the device record. Depending on the data scenarios, different measuring components can be used to collect and process usage data for the service point.
References: Oracle Utilities Meter Data Management Business User Guide, Chapter 3: Asset Management, Section 3.1: Service Points; Section 3.3: Devices; Section 3.5: Measuring Components

Explanation
In a SaaS environment, Oracle Utilities Meter Data Management and Smart Grid Gateway are deployed on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and use OCI Object Storage to store files and data. OCI Object Storage is a scalable and secure service that allows users to store and access data from anywhere using REST APIs or web consoles. Smart Grid Gateway adapters process usage and device event payloads via batch processing. Files are sent from a head-end system (HES) to an OCI Object Storage location, where they are batch processed.
According to the Oracle Utilities Smart Grid Gateway User Guide, some operations that are performed by the Smart Grid Gateway processes are:
* Parse payload into individual usage readings/device events. This is an operation that extracts usage readings or device events from the payload file and converts them into individual records.
* Invoke IMD/Device Event Seeder (as appropriate). This is an operation that invokes a web service that sends usage readings or device events to Oracle Utilities Meter Data Management for further processing.
* Transform usage readings into standard (unified) format. This is an operation that converts usage readings from vendor-specific formats into a standard format that can be processed by Oracle Utilities Meter Data Management.
References: Oracle Utilities Smart Grid Gateway User Guide, Chapter 4: Commands, Section 4.4: Command Configuration; Chapter 5: Device Events; Chapter 6: Usage