Using the Oracle Cloud Console

In the Quick Actions widget, select Add a user to your tenancy to add users and groups to access applications environments and other OCI services. For more information, see Adding Oracle Cloud Console Users.

Links to documentation and to Oracle University courses are displayed for easy reference in the Oracle University widget. The documents and courses shown are customized for your tenancy based on the subscriptions you have purchased.

Open the navigation menu in the upper left to navigate directly to services not listed on the home page.

The following image shows an example, your tenancy displays only the applications available to you.

Click My Applications to display the list of applications available to you.

If you have other applications not shown on the home page, you'll see a link under Applications for the Classic Applications Console. Use the Classic Applications Console to manage the applications not yet available on the Oracle Cloud Console. For information about the Classic Applications Console, see Discover Oracle Cloud Applications on Applications Console.

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is physically hosted in regions. A region is a localized geographic area, and regions are named according to the country, geographical area, and city, for example: US East (Ashburn), UK South (London), and Brazil East (Sao Paolo).

With the exception of the home page, the Console provides a view of the resources in a single region. The region that you are currently viewing is displayed in the top bar of the Console. If you navigate away from the home page and don't see environments or other resources that you expect to see, verify that you are viewing the correct region. To change regions, open the region menu, and select the region you wish to view.

The home page provides a view of your application environments across regions. Environments that are not in the region you are currently viewing display this icon . When you click the link on the home page, the Console switches to the region where the environment is located. Once you leave the home page, you must use the region picker to view resources in each region.

When you create an environment, you can choose the region that you want the environment to be located in (depending on the regions supported by your specific applications).

More information:

For Fusion Applications, see Choosing a Region for an Environment Family.

For other applications, see Choosing a Region for an Environment.

You can set the time zone in the Console so that you see time stamps in your preferred time zone for Fusion Applications pages. By default, time stamps are shown in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).

To change the time zone setting:

1. Open the Profile menu and click Console settings.
2. Under Time Zone in the menu, select the preferred time zone.
3. Click Save changes.

Open the Help menu () and click Request help. Enter your issue in the Support Chat panel. If the returned information doesn't resolve your issue, click Support Request to open a ticket. For more guidance, see Creating a Support Request.

The first time you open a support request, you're automatically taken through a series of steps to provision your support account. If you want to make changes or if you run into problems, see Configuring Your Oracle Support Account.

To explore and interact with Infrastructure (OCI) services, open the navigation menu, select Home, and then select Infrastructure. See Get to Know the Console for details.

The Console Dashboards service allows you to create custom dashboards to monitor resources, diagnostics, and key metrics.

To view the Dashboard, open the navigation menu, select Home and then select Dashboards.

Applications services support the following widgets:

• Resource Explorer Widget: This widget allows you to view resources by compartment. You can only include a single instance of the resource explorer widget in your dashboard.

• Monitoring Widget: This widget lets you view and compare metrics from the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring service. You can include multiple monitoring widgets in your dashboard.

• Markdown Widget: This widget lets you add and format text-based content. You can include multiple markdown widgets in your dashboard.

To display the list of applications and environments on the Oracle Cloud Console home page, you must be granted access to view your subscriptions. If you are the default administrator or are a member of the Administrators group, this access is included.

For users not in the Administrators group, you must be granted access through permissions specified in a policy. To view the list of applications, you must belong to a group granted the permissions to read the subscriptions in the tenancy.

The set of permissions required to view the list of applications are:

Allow group <GroupName> to read organizations-subscriptions in tenancy
Allow group <GroupName> to read organizations-assigned-subscriptions in tenancy
Allow group <GroupName> to read app-listing-environments in tenancy

To view the environment details, you must also have permissions to view the specific application.

• For details on adding groups and policies for Fusion Applications, see Managing Oracle Cloud Users with Specific Job Functions.
• For details on adding groups and policies for Oracle Commerce, Oracle Maymiser, or Transportation and Global Trade Management Cloud, see Managing User Access to Applications Environments.
• For other applications that don't require environment management in the Console, see Adding Oracle Cloud Console Users.