Enable Announcements

Announcement subscriptions let you direct announcements that match specified filter criteria to your choice of endpoint, from email to SMS and others. Endpoints can have multiple recipients for a given subscription protocol, if desired.

1. In the Announcements dashboard, click on Subscriptions in the left side section under Announcements Section.
2. Under List scope, select Compartment, and then choose a compartment that you have permission to work in. The page updates to display only the resources in that compartment. If you're not sure which compartment to use, contact an administrator.
3. Click on Create announcement subscription.
4. Click Name, and then enter a name for the subscription.
5. Click Description, and then enter a description. (Optional)
6. Click Compartment, and then select the compartment where you want to create the subscription.
7. Under Subscription type, do one of the following:
   • If you want the service to publish all announcements to the Notifications topic that you configure for this subscription, click All announcements.
     • Under Display preferences, click Time zone, and then choose the time zone that you prefer for announcement time stamps.
       
       
       
       
   • If you want the service to publish only the announcements that meet the filter criteria that you specify, click Selected announcements only.
     • Configure a filter group with the filters that you want to apply to announcements for this subscription. Under Filter group, click Filter group name, and then enter a name for the filter.
     • Under Filters, click Type, and then use the following table to configure a Value for what announcements you want to receive:

       Option	Description
       Announcement type	Specify an announcement type to include in the filter. Every announcement is assigned to a category that helps you understand the relative severity of the information in the announcement
       Compartment	Specify a compartment to include in the filter. Not all announcements impact a specific compartment, but this filter lets you include announcements that do. Note: If you specify the root compartment, then subscribers receive all announcements for the tenancy. However, if you want all announcements, then we recommend you create a subscription for all announcements instead of creating a subscription for selected announcements only.
       Platform	Specify whether you want to see announcements that impact the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (IaaS) platform or announcements that impact Software as a Service (SaaS) applications.
       Region	Specify a region to include in the filter.
       Resource OCID	Specify up to 5 resources that you want to include in the filter by doing the following: Click Browse, select the check box next to the resource that you want to include, and then click Add to filter. (If needed, to list resources in a different compartment, click Compartment and choose a compartment.) Note: You can't combine this filter with any other type of filter in a particular filter group.
       Service	Select the name of the service that you want to include. To narrow the list, you can type or otherwise enter the service name. Not all announcements impact a particular service, but this filter lets you include announcements that do. If a filter specifies more than one service, then the Announcements service notifies subscribers of announcements impacting any of the specified services. Note: When you create a subscription based on a service, you get all the announcements for that service. You don't need to separately create a subscription for each region where you use the service.

   
   
   
   
   
8. Notifications Topic
   • Configure a topic in the Notifications service. A topic is a communication channel for sending messages to its subscriptions. A topic can have zero, one, or multiple subscriptions that are notified whenever a message is published to a topic.
   • To use an existing Notifications topic, click Use existing topic, and then choose a topic from the currently selected compartment. (If needed, to list resources in a different compartment, click Compartment and choose a compartment.)
   • To create a new Notifications topic, click Create new topic, and then provide the following:

     Option	Description
     Compartment	Select the compartment where you want to create the topic.
     Name	Enter a name for the topic.
     Description	Enter a description for the topic.
     Subscription protocol	Choose the protocol used by subscription endpoints. The information you must provide about the subscription endpoint depends on the protocol. If you select Email, then click Email address and enter a valid email address. If you select Function, then specify the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Functions application and function by selecting an Oracle Functions application and then Function. (If needed, click Function compartment to list resources in a different compartment.) If you select HTTPS custom URL, then click URL and enter a valid HTTPS URL. If you select PagerDuty, click URL and enter a valid PagerDuty URL. If you select Slack, click URL and enter the URL of a valid Slack channel. If you select SMS, specify a Country and Phone Number. Optionally, to add another subscription protocol to this topic, click + Another subscription.

   
   
   
   
   
9. Click Create.