Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Documentation

Understanding Domains

A WebLogic Management domain is a representation in the service of a WebLogic domain.

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A WebLogic domain is the core resource in WebLogic Management. They differ from other OCI resources in that they are not created; rather, they are discovered. When you enable WebLogic Management on a compute instance, a discovery process starts and the plugin scans the instance for WebLogic domains. When it finds a domain, information is sent to the service and a WebLogic Management domain record is created. This record is merely a representation of the WebLogic domain on the compute instance and contains information such as:

  • Domain name and path
  • Listen address of servers in the domain
  • The last time servers in the domain were started
  • Whether the node managers use SSL for internal communication
  • Whether the administration server for the domain uses SSL for internal communication
  • Path to the middleware used by a domain
  • The type of the middleware used by a domain (Fusion Middleware, WebLogic Server)
  • Version of the middleware used by a domain
  • Patch IDs of patches applied to a middleware used by a domain
  • The latest patch application date recorded by OPatch in the middleware used by a domain
  • Path to and version of the JDK used by a domain

For a complete list of the type of information gathered and stored, see Security Responsibilities.

After the initial discovery process, the compute instance is scanned periodically for changes to the domain and its servers. For more information, see Understanding Scanning.