About OMC Roles and Users

After you create an Oracle Management Cloud instance as an Oracle Cloud account administrator, two type of roles are provisioned.

This table contains typical user and admin tasks.

User Role Typical Tasks
OMC Administrator
  • Install and manage cloud agents
  • Add entities to be monitored
  • Delete entities
  • Configure alert rules
  • Disable notifications on alerts (during maintenance periods)
  • Set up infrastructure monitoring and log analytics
  • View and monitor infrastructure status and performance
  • Create and administer new log sources
  • Create and administer new log parsers
OMC User
  • View and monitor infrastructure status and performance
  • Receive alert notifications and view alerts
  • Select targets, groups, or systems to explore
  • Search and analyze logs
  • Save and share log searches
  • Build custom dashboards
  • Diagnose performance issue for an application
For more information on Oracle Cloud user roles, see Add Users and Assign Roles in Getting Started with Oracle Management Cloud.