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This section describes how to access Oracle E-Business Suite Cloud Manager on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and review basic environment information.
Oracle E-Business Suite Cloud Manager is a tool for managing Oracle E-Business Suite environments on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure through a graphical user interface. You can use Oracle E-Business Suite Cloud Manager for fresh provisioning or provisioning as part of a lift and shift, for environment backups and restores, and for other lifecycle management activities. For a full list of Oracle E-Business Suite Cloud Manager features, see Features.
You must have the following prerequisites to access Oracle E-Business Suite Cloud Manager and work with Oracle E-Business Suite environments.
An Oracle E-Business Suite Cloud Manager instance set up as described in Deploy Oracle E-Business Suite Cloud Manager on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure .
The compartment, resources, and Oracle E-Business Suite administrator user necessary to deploy your Oracle E-Business Suite environments as described in Set Up Your Tenancy to Host Oracle E-Business Suite Environments.
Your user OCID. Note that you must be an Oracle E-Business Suite administrator to access the Oracle E-Business Suite Cloud Manager UI. See Where to Get the Tenancy's OCID and User's OCID. Copy and paste the user OCID to a file that you can reference when instructed to enter it later in these steps.
An Oracle Identity Cloud Service user name and password. See About Cloud Accounts with Identity Cloud Service.
A minimum of 10 GB of free disk space in order to run Oracle E-Business Suite Cloud Manager jobs, including provisioning, discovery, configuration, and all lifecycle management activities.
To access Oracle E-Business Suite Cloud Manager, perform the following tasks:
Navigate to your Oracle E-Business Suite Cloud Manager instance at the URL established during its deployment. Log in with your Oracle Identity Cloud Service credentials. See Deploy Oracle E-Business Suite Cloud Manager on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure .
The following steps are required if you are logging in to Oracle E-Business Suite Cloud Manager for the first time.
Note: The Oracle E-Business Suite Cloud Manager administrator who performed the initial setup does not need to perform these steps.
Before you use Oracle E-Business Suite Cloud Manager for the first time, you must specify user details in the Oracle Cloud Account Details page, including your user OCID.
When you log into Oracle E-Business Suite Cloud Manager for the first time, the Oracle Cloud Account Details page appears by default. You can review the tenancy details for your Oracle Cloud account.
In the Account Information region, enter your user OCID.
Click Register User, and then click Register in the confirmation dialog box.
Oracle E-Business Suite Cloud Manager generates a new public/private API signing key pair for the user you have registered. When prompted, download the public .pem key file to an accessible location.
If you need to download the public key again later, click the Get Public Key link, and then click Yes in the confirmation dialog box.
Oracle E-Business Suite Cloud Manager also derives the fingerprint for your user account from your key and displays it in the Account Information region.
Next, upload your public key to your user settings in the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Console. See "To Upload an API Signing Key" in Using the Console
Tip: Navigate to the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Console in another browser window or tab so that you can perform the upload without leaving the Oracle E-Business Suite Cloud Manager page.
Return to the Oracle Cloud Account Details page, and click Validate. Oracle E-Business Suite Cloud Manager displays a confirmation message and then displays the Environments page.
Note: You cannot change your user OCID after it is validated.
After you have registered and validated your user account, when you access Oracle E-Business Suite Cloud Manager again, the Environments page appears immediately after you log in.
To review your account details after your initial login, navigate to the Oracle Cloud Account Details page by clicking your user avatar icon, labeled with your name, in the Oracle E-Business Suite Cloud Manager header and selecting Profile. To return to the Environments page, click Done.
You should periodically check whether your Oracle E-Business Suite Cloud Manager instance is at the latest version.
Click your user avatar icon, labeled with your name, in the Oracle E-Business Suite Cloud Manager header and select About.
The About the EBS Cloud Manager Console window displays the version number that is currently installed. If a later version is available, the window also displays a message indicating the version number that is available for update. We recommend that you update your instance as soon as feasible following the instructions in Update Oracle E-Business Suite Cloud Manager to the Latest Version.
The About the EBS Cloud Manager Console window also displays the realm where your Oracle E-Business Suite Cloud Manager instance is located and whether the Oracle E-Business Suite Cloud Manager instance uses metadata available through a public internet connection or local metadata.
For a Commercial Cloud instance, the window also displays the private and public IP addresses for the Oracle E-Business Suite Cloud Manager VM. You can refer to these IP addresses to assist in troubleshooting any issues with connecting to Oracle E-Business Suite Cloud Manager.
Use the Navigator menu to access the Oracle E-Business Suite Cloud Manager functionality you want to use.
In the Oracle E-Business Suite Cloud Manager header, set the EBS Compartment field to the compartment in which you want to work. Oracle E-Business Suite Cloud Manager displays only resources and administration details pertaining to that compartment. By default, the compartment is set to the root compartment of your Oracle Cloud Infrastructure account.
Note: The header also displays the region and the tenancy in which your Oracle E-Business Suite Cloud Manager instance is located.
To review and manage your Oracle E-Business Suite environments, click the Navigator icon, and then select Environments. See Review Environments.
To review the backups of Oracle E-Business Suite environments stored on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, click the Navigator icon, and then select Backups. See Review Backups.
The Backups page includes both backups created from on-premises Oracle E-Business Suite environments and backups created from Oracle E-Business Suite environments that you previously provisioned on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. See Create a Backup of an On-Premises Oracle E-Business Suite Environment on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Create a Backup of a Cloud-Based Oracle E-Business Suite Environment.
You can also review a list of the backups for a particular environment in the environment details page for that environment. See Review Environment Details.
To monitor the status of the jobs performed in Oracle E-Business Suite Cloud Manager, click the Navigator icon, and then select Jobs. See Monitor Job Status.
You can also review a list of the jobs performed for a particular environment in the environment details page for that environment. See Review Environment Details.
To review the network profiles that identify the network resources available for use in provisioning, click the Navigator icon, select Administration, and then select Network Profiles. See Set Up Network Profiles.
If you are logged in as an Oracle E-Business Suite Cloud Manager administrator, you can use this page to create and delete custom network profiles.
If you are logged in as a user without administrator privileges, then you can review the details for network profiles assigned to you, but you cannot update them.
Note: To have Oracle E-Business Suite Cloud Manager administrator privileges, a user must be a member of the Oracle E-Business Suite Cloud Manager administrator group that was specified during configuration of this Oracle E-Business Suite Cloud Manager instance. For more details, see Configure Oracle E-Business Suite Cloud Manager Compute Instance.
If you are logged in as an Oracle E-Business Suite Cloud Manager administrator, then to extend Oracle E-Business Cloud Manager jobs to meet your own requirements, click the Navigator icon, select Administration, and then select Extensibility. You can create extended job definitions for provisioning, cloning, and promoting standby environments. See Set Up the Extensibility Framework.
Note: To have Oracle E-Business Suite Cloud Manager administrator privileges, a user must be a member of the Oracle E-Business Suite Cloud Manager administrator group that was specified during configuration of this Oracle E-Business Suite Cloud Manager instance. For more details, see Configure Oracle E-Business Suite Cloud Manager Compute Instance.
To submit a discovery request for a manually deployed environment or an upgraded environment, click the Navigator icon, select Administration, and then select Discovery. See Discover an Oracle E-Business Suite Instance.
To set up scheduling policies for backups, click the Navigator icon, select Administration, and then select Scheduling Policies. See Set Up Scheduling Policies.
The Environments page lists the Oracle E-Business Suite environments provisioned in your Oracle E-Business Suite Cloud Manager instance, as well as standby environments and incomplete installations from unsuccessful provisioning attempts.
If you are logged in as an Oracle E-Business Suite Cloud Manager administrator, then the Environments page shows all environments provisioned in your Oracle E-Business Suite Cloud Manager instance. If you are logged in as a user without administrator privileges, then the page shows only environments that reside within the compartment that is selected in the EBS Compartment field in the Oracle E-Business Suite Cloud Manager header.
Note: To have Oracle E-Business Suite Cloud Manager administrator privileges, a user must be a member of the Oracle E-Business Suite Cloud Manager administrator group that was specified during configuration of this Oracle E-Business Suite Cloud Manager instance. For more details, see Configure Oracle E-Business Suite Cloud Manager Compute Instance.
Note: If you used Oracle E-Business Suite Cloud Manager to deploy an environment with Oracle Database Release 11.2.0.4 or Release 12.1.0.2, and you upgrade that environment to Oracle Database 19c, then you must unregister and rediscover the upgraded environment to update its metadata within Oracle E-Business Suite Cloud Manager. Similarly, if you used Oracle E-Business Suite Cloud Manager to deploy an Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1.3 environment, and you upgrade that environment to Release 12.2, then you must unregister and rediscover the upgraded environment. See Discover an Oracle E-Business Suite Instance.
After performing rediscovery, you can continue managing the environment through Oracle E-Business Suite Cloud Manager.
You can optionally enter a value in the search field to display only environments whose properties contain that value. You can search by the following properties shown in this page:
Environment name
Network profile that defines the network resources used by the environment
Oracle E-Business Suite compartment where the environment resides
Database service type
Database name
Last job performed for this environment in Oracle E-Business Suite Cloud Manager
Creation date and time
To begin provisioning an environment, click Provision Environment and select either One-Click or Advanced. See One-Click Provisioning or Advanced Provisioning.
To review additional details for an environment, including any backups created from that environment and jobs performed for that environment, click the environment name link. Note that you can review details only for an existing environment that was successfully provisioned or an existing standby environment that was successfully created. See Review Environment Details and Review Standby Environment Details.
To review details for the last job performed for an environment, click the job status link. See Monitor Job Status.
To clone an environment, click the Actions icon next to that environment, and then select Clone. Note that you can use this cloning method only for an existing environment that was successfully provisioned on Compute or Base Database Service DB System. See Clone an Oracle E-Business Suite Instance.
To create a backup of an environment, click the Actions icon next to that environment, and then select Create Backup. Note that you can back up only an existing environment that was successfully provisioned. See Create a Backup of a Cloud-Based Oracle E-Business Suite Environment.
To promote a standby environment to a production environment, click the Actions icon next to that environment, and then select Promote. Note that you can promote only an existing standby environment that was successfully set up. See Promote a Standby Environment.
To delete an environment, click the Actions icon next to that environment, and then select Delete. You can delete existing environments or standby environments that you no longer need. You can also delete incomplete installations from unsuccessful provisioning attempts that you do not want to restart. See Delete an Oracle E-Business Suite Environment.