Managing Service Instances

You can manage service instances that you created in Infrastructure Classic Console or Applications Console from the service details page. You can also create additional instances by using the Create Instance button from the service details page if you have the appropriate role.

Only identity domain administrators, service administrators, entitlement administrators, or bucket entitlement administrators can create or manage (cancel, lock, delete, copy, or modify) instances that they have created or have access to, if supported by the service type.

When you create service instances using Infrastructure Classic Console or Applications Console, they appear in the Service Details page, Overview tab. For instances you create using the service-specific console, use the console for viewing and managing your instances. For example, if you create Storage Classic instances using the Storage Classic Service console, then use the console to view and manage your instances.

To manage your service instances, do the following:

1. Sign in to Applications Console or Infrastructure Classic Console.
   Sign in to the Applications Console if you want to work with Oracle Cloud Applications. Sign in to Infrastructure Classic Console if you want to access Oracle Cloud infrastructure and platform services. If you see Infrastructure Classic at the top of the page when you sign in to Oracle Cloud, then you are using Infrastructure Classic Console and your subscription does not support access to the Oracle Cloud Console.
2. Navigate to your entitlement.
3. Click the service name to open the details page for that service. The Overview page is in focus, which lists all the available instances.
4. To filter the list, select from the following type of instances:

   • Active: (Default) Lists all active and available instances including soft-terminated instances.

   • Inactive: Lists all instances that are not active. For example, initialized, initialization-in-progress, canceled, disabled, blackout, terminated, or termination-in-progress.

   • All: Lists all instances.

5. Select an instance from the list.
6. Click Action.
7. To lock an instance, select Lock from the Action list.
8. To modify an instance, select Modify from the Action list. You can modify the custom or service-specific attributes, as required, based on your plan and the product you selected during instance creation. For a resource that has reached its hard limit, the field is read-only. The Modify button is enabled only when there are custom attributes. This button is disabled if a service is in a suspended state (for example, suspended due to a quota breach) but enabled if downgrade is supported for the suspended service. In such cases, the system allows you to downgrade your resource (if supported by the service type), by specifying a minimum amount of resources during instance modification. For example, if you’ve reached your resource quota of 40, then you can downgrade the number of resources to 10 (for example), by entering –30 (40–30=10) in the required field. However, you can’t go below the minimum number required for the resource that can be downgraded.

   When you want to specify additional resources for a custom attribute during instance modification, you can’t exceed the maximum value defined per instance for that attribute. For example, if the maximum value is 10 for a custom attribute, and you have already specified 6 during instance creation, then, you can only enter 4 (or less) for that attribute during instance modification (10–6=4 is the available number of additional resources).

   Note:

   You can only modify instances that you create. For example, you can’t modify some instances like Social Network that get created automatically when you create a Documents instance.

   Note that the Modify button is disabled if the selected instance modification is still in pending status.
9. To copy an instance, select Create Like. This creates a new instance quickly by using the specified values from the original instance, excluding the password details and details of association, if any.
10. To delete an instance, select Delete. You can delete an instance only if supported by the service type.
11. To cancel an instance creation, select Cancel. You can cancel instance creation request only if supported by the service type and if the instance is still in the initialized state.