Secured Communication (TCPS) Access to Databases

Out of the box support is provided for discovering, monitoring, and administration of TCPS enabled listeners. All databases created through the Admin provisioning flow or Cloud Self Service portal support SSL enabled connection strings by default. Target databases can be monitored securely by configuring the TCPS connection protocol. By configuring secured access, data transport encryption is enabled between OMS and the database server target and between the Agent and the database server target.

As businesses look towards cloud solutions, secure user authentication is a key requirement of the product offering. Oracle's default authentication protocols O3LOGON and O5LOGON (introduced in Enterprise Manager 11g) have been revamped to enable user authentication using the TCPS protocol for Oracle Database Server instead of the not-so-secure TCP protocol.

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Using secure authentication has no impact on normal database performance.