Get to Know the Console

You are directed to a Console depending on how you signed up for Oracle Cloud.

When you sign in, you see either the infrastructure home page or the applications home page. The contents of these pages can vary depending on what services you have purchased. If you've subscribed to Oracle Cloud Applications, you'll be directed to the applications view of the Console.

The home page offers features for both new and experienced users. For new users, the Get Started tab provides features to help you start learning about and working with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. The Dashboard tab supports widgets to help you quickly access and monitor your resources and billing usage. This tab further helps you create custom dashboards to monitor diagnostics and key metrics for your tenancy.

Open the navigation menu in the upper left to work with services and resources. Services and resources are organized by functional group. For example, to work with Compute service instances: Open the navigation menu and click Compute. Under Compute, click Instances.

For faster navigation, you can pin items to make them appear in the Pinned Links section of the Home tab. To pin an item, hover over the menu item and then click the pin to the left of the item name. The Recent section of the Home tab shows recently used navigation items. To quickly find navigation menu items, use the Search box.

Your current region is displayed at the top of the Console. If your tenancy is subscribed to multiple regions, you can switch regions by selecting a different region from the Region menu.

When working within a service, the Console displays resources that are in the currently selected region. So if your tenancy has instances in CompartmentA in US West (Phoenix), and instances in CompartmentA in US East (Ashburn), you can only view the instances in one region at a time, even though the instances are in the same compartment.

Using the following figure as an example, if you select US West (Phoenix) and then select CompartmentA, you see instances 1 and 2 listed. To see instances 3 and 4 in the Console, you must switch to US East (Ashburn) (and then you no longer see instances 1 and 2).

To view resources across regions that are in a specific compartment, you can use the tenancy explorer.

IAM resources (compartments, users, groups, policies, tags, and federation providers) are global, so you can see those resources no matter which region you have selected in the Console.

The Console automatically signs out users a period of inactivity. If you want to change the session idle time-out settings for users in a tenancy, you can use the Console Settings menu.

1. Open the Profile menu () and click Console Settings.
2. Under Session time-out, in the menu, select a session idle time-out value. If you choose Custom number of minutes, enter a number from 5 to 60.
3. Click Save Changes.

To change the session time-out, you must either be in the Administrators group for the tenancy, or a member of the Administrator group must give you permission to manage default preferences for the tenancy. The following is an example policy that grants users permission to manage default preferences for the tenancy:

Allow group <group_name> to manage tenancy-preferences in tenancy

The Console automatically detects the language setting in your browser. However, if you want to view the Console in a different language, you can change it by using the language selector at the top of the Console.

The language selector supports the following languages:

The language you choose persists between sessions. However, the language setting is specific to the browser. If you change to a different browser, the Console displays text in the language last selected in the language selector. If it's the first time you're viewing the Console in a particular browser, the Console displays content according to the browser's language setting.

In the Console, you can create a support request or start a live online chat with an Oracle Support or Sales representative. For more information, see Getting Help and Contacting Support.

After you select a service from the navigation menu, the menu on the left includes the compartments list.

Compartments help you organize resources to make it easier to control access to them. Your root compartment is created for you by Oracle when your tenancy is provisioned. An administrator can create more compartments in the root compartment and then add the access rules to control which users can see and take action in them. To manage compartments, see Managing Compartments.

The list of compartments is filtered to show you only the compartments that you have permission to access. Compartments can be nested, and you might have access to a compartment but not its parent. The names of parent compartments that you don't have permission to access are dimmed, but you can traverse the hierarchy down to the compartment that you do have access to.

After you select a compartment, the Console displays only the resources that you have permission to view in the compartment for the region that you are in. The compartment selection filters the view of your resources. To see resources in another compartment, you must switch to that compartment. To see resources in another region, you must switch to that region, or use the tenancy explorer.

For more details about compartments, see Learn Best Practices for Setting Up Your Tenancy and Managing Compartments.

To help you locate a resource, some resources let you filter the list that is displayed.

Filters include:

State: You can display only the resources that are in the state you select. Valid values for state can vary by resource. Examples are:

• Any state - includes all lifecycle states for the resource
• Available
• Provisioning
• Terminating
• Terminated

Availability Domain: For resources that reside in a single availability domain , you can limit the list to the resources that reside in the availability domains you select. For a list of availability domain-specific resources, see Resource Availability.

Tags: Resources that support tagging let you filter the list by tags.

Under Your tenancy, the Usage section allows you to get a snapshot of your organization's subscription usage.

Since subscriptions are commitment-specific, you can view the following for each commitment associated with a particular subscription ID:

• The credits used against the total.
• The number of days elapsed in the commitment.

When multiple commitments exist in a subscription, the interface indicates that there are multiple active commitments. For example, 1 of 2 is shown for a customer that has two commitments in a subscription.

Click the arrows to page through the active commitments in a subscription. Click the arrows again to page through further commitment details, for cases when multiple subscriptions are present.

The Usage section information can differ whether you are signed in as a parent or child tenancy in an organization:

• Parent tenancies can see the commitment details for themselves and all child tenancies in the organization that are sharing a subscription. For such a case, you can click the arrows to scroll through and view the credit usage and days elapsed, for both the parent and child tenancies. As a result, the parent tenancy can get a bird's-eye view of all the usage at the commitment level (credit usage and days elapsed) across the entire organization, for every commitment in each subscription.
• When a child tenancy is signed in, the child tenancy can only see its own commitment details.

To view more detailed cost reporting information, click Analyze costs to go to Cost Analysis. Also see Cost Reporting Integration and Viewing Subscription Details and Costs for more information on organization-based cost reporting. If Oracle Cloud Advisor has found any Cost savings opportunities, you can click View recommendations to review them.

To sign out of the Console, open the Profile menu () and then click Sign Out.

The Console is architected to ensure high availability. At least three Compute nodes per availability domain are maintained, spanning at least two fault domains. For ensuring availability across regions, traffic is load balanced using two regions within multi-region realms. The following diagram shows the Console architecture.

The Console development process uses a standard Secure Software Development Lifecycle (SSDLC) process, along with a service and application update process designed to ensure availability and minimize customer impact.

Firewalls, proxy servers, or other devices that your network administrators use to control access to the internet can affect your ability to connect to the Console.

To allow network access to the Console, your network administrator should add the following URLs to the allowlist of your firewall or proxy server:

*.oracle.com
*.oraclecloud.com
*.oracleinfinity.io
oracle.112.2o7.net
consent.trustarc.com (Console cookie preferences)