Create an IAM Policy

Create a policy to grant permission to users in a group to work with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Process Automation instances within a specified tenancy or compartment.

Note

This topic applies only to tenancies that do not use identity domains. See Differences Between Tenancies With and Without Identity Domains.
  1. Open the navigation menu and click Identity & Security. Under Identity, click Policies.
  2. Click Create Policy.
  3. In the Create Policy window, enter a name (for example, ProcessAutomationGroupPolicy) and a description.
  4. In the Policy Builder, select Show manual editor and enter the required policy statements.

    Syntax:

    • allow group group_name to verb resource-type in compartment compartment-name
    • allow group group_name to verb resource-type in tenancy

    Example: allow group oci-ocipa-admins to manage process-automation-instance in compartment PACompartment

    This policy statement allows the oci-ocipa-admins group to manage instance process-automation-instance in compartment PACompartment.

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  5. If desired, you can add a policy to allow members of the group to view service metrics as described in View Service Metrics.
    For example: allow group oci-ocipa-admins to read metrics in compartment PACompartment
  6. Click Create.
    The policy statements are validated and syntax errors (if any) are displayed.