Overview of Fusion Applications Environment
Management
The Oracle Cloud Console provides self-service management of the environments where you
provision, run, and maintain your Fusion Applications.
When you subscribe to Fusion Applications, you are allotted one production environment,
one test environment, and you have the option of purchasing development environments.
Before you provision these environments, you set up an environment family. The
environment family ensures that the applications on all your environments are
maintained, upgraded, and patched at the same levels.
When you create an environment you can configure some options specifically for each
environment in the family, including some maintenance schedule options, language packs,
and network access control rules. After you create an environment, you can fully manage
the lifecycle of the environment, including:
View metrics and availability
Get detailed information about upcoming scheduled maintenance
Monitor maintenance in progress
Manage other services that are integrated with your Fusion Applications
environment
Refresh test and development environments
Edit options such as language packs, network access control rules, and some
maintenance schedule settings
The following concepts are key to understanding Fusion Applications Environment Management.
ENVIRONMENT FAMILY
A logical grouping of environments set up to facilitate management of the
related environments. The environment family ensures that the applications on
all your environments are maintained, upgraded, and patched at the same
levels.
ENVIRONMENT
The platform where applications are provisioned. The environment provides a
single management interface for the installed applications.
PRODUCTION ENVIRONMENT
The production environment supports your day-to-day real-time business
operations by authorized users. An environment family is allotted one production
environment to provision.
NON-PRODUCTION ENVIRONMENT
Test and development environments are both non-production environments. The test
environment is typically used for staging before application deployment to
production and for validation of maintenance updates before the same maintenance
is applied to the production environment. An environment family is allotted one
test environment to provision. Development environments (also referred to as
Additional Test Environments or ATEs) are typically used as individual or
collaborative development sandboxes for developing extensions (such as
reporting, pages, and interfaces) or integrations with other applications. You
must order the number of development environments needed by your
organization.
INTEGRATION
Services that are provisioned with your subscribed applications to extend the
functionality of your Fusion applications. The Integrations feature of
environment management allows you to discover and manage these services from a
single place.
Region Availability 🔗
Fusion Applications Environment Management
are physically hosted in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure regions. A region
is a localized geographic area. For more information, see Regions and Availability Domains.
When you create your environments, you select the region where you want your applications to be provisioned. Fusion Applications Environment Management is available in the following regions:
Setting the Console Time Zone for Fusion Applications 🔗
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:
Open the Profile menu and select Console settings.
Under Time Zone in the menu, select the preferred time zone.
Click Save changes.
Important
Currently, only Console pages specific to Fusion Applications display the preferred time
zone. These include the environment details and environment family details pages. All
other Console pages will still display time stamps in UTC. When UTC is shown, the
abbreviation is included in the time stamp, so you'll know which time zone the time
stamp represents (for example: Thu, Jul 28, 2022, 13:41:45 UTC).
Understanding OCI Features Used by Fusion Applications Environment Management 🔗
Fusion Applications environment management is built
on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and leverages its services to provide
features such as authentication and authorization, events, and monitoring. When managing
your Fusion Applications environments, you'll interact with OCI, so it is helpful to understand some OCI fundamentals. Following are some key OCI concepts:
COMPARTMENT
A collection of related resources. Compartments are a fundamental component of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure for organizing and isolating your cloud resources. You use them to clearly separate resources for the purposes of measuring usage and billing, access (through the use of policies), and isolation (separating the resources for one project or business unit from another). A common approach is to create a compartment for each major part of your organization. For more information, see Understanding Compartments.
REGION
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is physically hosted in regions and
availability domains. A region is a localized geographic area, and an
availability domain is one or more data centers located within a region. A
region is composed of one or more availability domains. Oracle Cloud
Infrastructure resources are either region-specific, such as a virtual cloud
network, or availability domain-specific, such as a compute instance. For
more information, see Regions and Availability Domains.
Resource Identifiers 🔗
Most types of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure resources have a unique, Oracle-assigned identifier called an Oracle Cloud ID (OCID). For information about the OCID format and other ways to identify your resources, see Resource Identifiers.
Authentication and Authorization 🔗
Each service in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure integrates with IAM for authentication and authorization, for all
interfaces (the Console, SDK or CLI, and REST API).
An administrator in your organization needs to set up groups , compartments , and policies that control which users can access which
services, which resources, and the type of access. For example, the policies control who
can create new users, create and manage the cloud network, create and manage
environments, and so on. For more information, see Getting Started with Policies. For details about writing Fusion Applications Environment Management policies, see Fusion Applications Environment Management IAM Policy Reference.
If you're a regular user (not an administrator) who needs to use the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure resources that your company owns, contact your administrator to set up a user ID for you. The administrator can confirm which compartment or compartments you should be using.
Getting Started with Fusion Applications Environment Management 🔗
The following workflow describes the main tasks to get started working with Fusion Applications environment management:
When you are ready to create the family and environments, click
Start on the Get started with Fusion
Applications panel and follow the prompts.
When the environments are ready, an email is sent to the administrator email address
provided for the environment during setup. Sign in to your application using the
links provided to start using your applications.