Step 2: Creating an OCI IAM Identity Domain

You must have an OCI tenancy and permission to create identity domains.

Before You Begin

The new identity domain must be in the same region as your Simphony environment. Subscribe to that region before creating a new identity domain. The following table shows the possible Simphony regions, as well as those region’s paired regions for disaster recovery.

Oracle recommends enabling remote region disaster recovery for the identity domain.

To enable remote region disaster recovery during domain creation, the default domain must have disaster recovery already enabled, and the tenancy must be subscribed to the paired region.

Do not use the default identity domain for Simphony.

Simphony Region	Region Identifier	Paired OCI IAM Region	Paired Region Identifier
US East (Ashburn)	us-ashburn-1	US West (Phoenix)	us-phoenix-1
Germany Central (Frankfurt)	eu-frankfurt-1	Netherlands Northwest (Amsterdam)	eu-amsterdam-1
Australia East (Sydney)	ap-sydney-1	Australia Southeast (Melbourne)	ap-melbourne-1
Singapore (Singapore)	ap-singapore-1	Singapore West (Singapore)	ap-singapore-2
India West (Mumbai)	ap-mumbai-1	India South (Hyderabad)	ap-hyderabad-1

1. Within the OCI Console, in the region selector, select the OCI region that matches the Simphony environment.
2. Go to Identity and Security, Domains, and then click Create domain.
3. Create a new Free Tier identity domain.
4. Enter the enterprise short name as the domain name.

   The domain name appears on the sign-in page and in notification emails, so using the enterprise short name helps users recognize the domain.

5. Do not create a domain administrator during identity domain creation.

   Creating a domain administrator also creates a user in the identity domain. That user might not exist in Simphony People Management or might use an email address already assigned to a Simphony user.

6. If the option is available, enable remote region disaster recovery.

   If the paired region is not available yet, subscribe to the paired region and enable remote region disaster recovery after creating the domain.

7. Click Create.
8. Optionally, update the domain branding:
   • Go to the Branding tab, and then select Edit branding.
   • Set the company name to Oracle Simphony.
   • Set the login text to the enterprise long name.

   • Enable Hide continue to sign-in button.

     This further aligns the OCI IAM sign-in page to Oracle Restaurant standards and helps users identify that they are signing into Simphony.

The identity domain is now ready for the OCI IAM details to be provided to Oracle.

For more information about identity domains, see Managing Identity Domains. For more information about domain disaster recovery and region subscription, see Disaster Recovery and Identity Domains and Managing Regions for Identity Domains.