A tenancy administrator can create policies in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Identity and Access Management (IAM) to grant permissions to groups on resources in compartments in a tenancy.

For example, you can create an Administrators group whose members can access all Database Migration resources. You can then create a separate group for everyone else who's involved with Database Migration, and create policies that restrict their access to Database Migration resources in different compartments.

For a complete list of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure policies, see policy reference.

A policy is a document that consists of one or more statements. A policy statement follows this basic syntax:

Allow group <group_name> to <verb><resource-type> in compartment <compartment_name>

Policy language uses simple verbs like inspect, read, use, and manage.

Database Migration offers individual resource-types for writing policies.

When you add conditions to your policies, you can use either Oracle Cloud Infrastructure general or service specific variables.

Database Migration supports all general variables. For more information, see general variables for all requests.

There are various Oracle Cloud Infrastructure verbs and resource-types that you can use when you create a policy. The topics in this section show the permissions and API operations covered by each verb for Database Migration.

The level of access is cumulative as you go from inspect to read to use to manage.

Here's a list of the API operations for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Database Migration in logical order, grouped by resource-type.

The resource-types are odms-agent, odms-connection, odms-job and odms-migration.

Depending on whether or not you intend to use the following services, you will need to add policies to enable access to these services as well:

• Oracle Autonomous Databases for your target databases
• Oracle Vault to store secrets
• Oracle Object Storage to store Data Pump dumps

You create policies using the Console. In the Console navigation menu, under Governance and Administration, go to Identity, and then click Policies. Policies are written in the following syntax:

allow group <group-name> to <verb> <resource-type> in <location> where <condition>

• <group-name>: The name of the user group you're giving permissions to
• <verb>: Gives the group a certain level of access to a resource-type. As the verbs go from inspect to read to use to manage, the level of access increases and the permissions granted are cumulative.
• <resource-type>: The type of resource you're giving a group permission to work with, such as odms-agent, odms-connection, odms-job, and odms-migration.

  For more information, see resource-types.

• <location>: Attaches the policy to a compartment or tenancy. You can specify a single compartment or compartment path by name or OCID, or specify tenancy to cover the entire tenancy.
• <condition>: Optional. One or more conditions for which this policy will apply.

allow group <group-name> to inspect virtual-network-family in compartment <compartment-name>

allow group <group-name> to manage tag-namespaces in compartment <compartment-name>

1. In the Console navigation menu, under Governance and Administration, go to Identity, and then click Policies.
2. Click Create Policy.
3. Enter a name and description for the policy.
4. In the Statement field, enter a policy rule in the following format:

   allow <subject> to <verb> <resource-type> in <location> where <condition>

   Conditions are optional. See Verbs and Resource-type Combos.

5. (Optional) To add another statement, click + Another Statement.
6. Click Create.