Changes in Functionality for Oracle Oracle Database Security Central Instances on OCI

Learn about the changes in functionality of Oracle Oracle Database Security Central deployed on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).

Table 1 Functional Differences Between on-premise Oracle DBSecCentral instances and cloud Oracle DBSecCentral instances

Functionality Oracle Oracle Database Security Central instance deployed on-premises Oracle Oracle Database Security Central instances deployed on OCI
SSH authentication Password based authentication Key based authentication
Network settings (IP address and Host Name) Network settings can be modified using the Oracle Database Security Central console. These settings are read only in the Oracle Database Security Central console.
Time synchronization NTP settings can be modified using the Oracle Database Security Central console. NTP is automatically configured during instance creation and the NTP server settings cannot be changed.
DNS DNS setting can be modified using the Oracle Database Security Central console. DNS is automatically set to 169.254.169.254 during instance creation. The settings can be changed on the Oracle Database Security Central console.
Repository storage expansion SAN Storage OCI Block Storage must be used for storage expansion.
Archive or backup location NFS OCI File Storage (Recommended)
Database Firewall deployment modes
  • Monitoring / Blocking (Proxy)
  • Monitoring (Host Monitor)
  • Monitoring (Out-of-Band)
  • Monitoring / Blocking (Proxy)
  • Monitoring (Host Monitor)
  • Monitoring (Out-of-Band) is not supported.
Secondary Network Interface Cards on Audit Vault Server Supported Not supported. (Only the primary network interface card that is associated with the primary Audit Vault Server’s private IP address of the instance is supported.)
Secondary Network Interface Cards on Database Firewall Supported Not supported
Forwarding web console connections from standby to primary Supported May not work as due to URL containing private IP
Oracle DBSecCentral HA with Oracle RAC nodes Supported Not Supported