Overview of Service Administration Tasks

New Oracle Cloud customers can use the Infrastructure Classic Console or Applications Console to manage all aspects of their Oracle Cloud Account and the services they use.

Infrastructure Classic Console or Applications Console provides functionality for monitoring and operating your Oracle Cloud services. For each service type, detail and service metrics have unique, specific features; all pages and features aren’t visible for every service. For example, application archiving is an operation that a system administrator can perform only on a database service. Developer tasks, such as starting applications, are also accessed through Infrastructure Classic Console or Applications Console, but are described in the services-level documentation.

Use the following table as a guide to the monitoring and operating tasks you are able to perform in Infrastructure Classic Console or Applications Console.

Task	Perform in Infrastructure Classic Console or Applications Console
View and monitor service details	See Viewing Service Details and Monitoring Service Usage.
Monitor service notifications	See Monitoring Notifications.
Add and manage users	See Managing Users, User Accounts, and Roles.
Create and manage instances	See Creating a Service Instance in Getting Started with Oracle Cloud and Managing Service Instances.
Perform service-specific tasks	See the service-specific documentation for details about the operating and monitoring tasks specific to a particular service type.