Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Database Management

Early this year, Oracle announced the Announcing the general availability of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Database Management.

With Database Management Cloud Service, DBAs get a unified console for on-premises and cloud databases with lifecycle database management capabilities for monitoring, performance management, tuning and administration.

As of today, Database Management is available to use with external Oracle databases deployed on-premises. Support for Oracle Databases on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure will be coming soon.

The Database Management pricing is quite simple and clear, here it is:

This is a deep dive into the new OCI Database Management Service, and here are the basics:

1. From the main menu go down and search for Database Management:

2. On the right side, go to “Oracle Databases” in order to enable Database Management (opens a new tab):

3. Start registering external pluggable databases – as of today we cannot register cloud databases:

4. Select the compartment and choose a database display name:

5. Select the database and click on register.

The Database Management service comes with 4 main features:

• Fleet monitoring and management
• Database groups
• Database summary
• Custom PL/SQL jobs

Before you enable and use Database Management, you must review and complete some prerequisite tasks:

• Install Management Agents for Database Management
• Register the Oracle Database with the External Database service
• Connect the Oracle Database to the External Database handle
• Create Oracle Cloud Infrastructure IAM user groups

After you complete these prerequisite tasks, you must create policies to assign permissions to user groups in order to enable and use Database Management. 

In Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, policies provide the permissions required to allow users to work in certain ways with specific types of resources in a tenancy or a particular compartment.

A policy is written to determine who can perform what functions on which resources using the following basic syntax:

Allow <subject> to <verb> <resource> in <location>

In this policy example, you can create to grant the DB-AEG user group the permission to enable Database Management for all External Databases my your tenancy JULIANDON:

Allow group DB-AEG to use external-database-family in JULIANDON

The external-database-family is the family resource-type for the External Database service, which includes the following individual resource-types:

• external-container-databases
• external-pluggable-databases
• external-non-container-databases
• external-database-connectors

For more details, check the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Documentation.

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