Testing Your Connection

Test your connection before using it for the first time. If you are connecting through Oracle FastConnect Partner, work with your partner service account manager to identify a suitable procedure to test the connection.

Run the following checks before using the connection:

• Verify that you are accessing your Oracle Cloud services through FastConnect Classic and not through the public Internet.

• If you have set up redundant connections, test the failover procedures prior to enabling production traffic over the service. See Providing Redundancy to Ensure High Availability.

  • Verify that you can access Oracle Cloud services through FastConnect Classic even when a connection fails. If you have configured redundant connections from your network edge to FastConnect Classic and only one of your connections fails, establish and test the appropriate configurations on your routers to ensure that you don’t lose connectivity.

  • Verify connectivity to Oracle Cloud services even when both connections fail. Even if both connections to FastConnect Classic fail, you can reconfigure your routers to route traffic related to your Oracle Cloud services through the public Internet. This ensures that you won’t lose access to Oracle Cloud services as you can still access the services through the public Internet.

    Establish and test your configurations and procedures for uninterrupted access to your Oracle Cloud services over the public Internet.