3.1 Getting Started with Oracle Cloud

This chapter introduces to the Oracle Cloud, Users and Roles, User Groups, User Management, and Session Time Out configuration.

Topics:

• Managing Application Users
• Managing User Groups
• User Management
• Configuring Session Timeout

• Welcome to Oracle Cloud
  Oracle Cloud is the industry's broadest and most integrated cloud provider, with deployment options ranging from the public cloud to your data center.
• Getting Started with your Cloud Service
  To get started, you must activate the subscribed Cloud Service.
• Managing Application Users
  An application user can access the subscribed cloud services, based on the roles and groups assigned to them
• Managing User Groups
  User groups are seeded (available out-of-the-box) by the cloud service. Groups are mapped to roles using the cloud service by the same user that was created using IAM.
• User Management
  During implementation, you prepare your Oracle Application's Cloud Service for the Service Users. The decisions made during this phase determine how you manage users by default. Most of these decisions can be overridden. However, for efficient User Management, Oracle recommends that you configure your environment to reflect both enterprise policy and support most or all users.
• Configuring Session Timeout
  Session timeout automatically signs you out of a logged in session after a set time period, for various reasons such as inactive session for a specific time frame.
• Ways to Generate Access Token
  An authenticated bearer token is required to invoke an API. The Authentication Process for token generation utilizes cURL Commands in a CLI Tool to generate the access token and invoke REST APIs.