Managing Environment Families

Tip: Before you begin, switch to the region and compartment where you want to create this environment family.

1. On the Applications tab of the Console, click Fusion Applications.
2. On the Fusion Applications Overview page, click Environment families.
3. On the Environment families page, click Create environment family.
4. Enter a friendly name for the environment family that will make it easy to identify. Avoid entering any confidential information in this field.

5. Add applications to environment family. The applications that you select here will be installed on all environments (production, test, and development) that you create in this family.

   Each of the Fusion Applications is listed with the subscriptions available to add. For each application that you want to include, select a subscription from the list. To see details about a subscription, select it and then click the expand arrow. The subscription details show the applications included, the number of users, and the number of environments included.

   For more information, see Selecting Applications to Include in an Environment Family. After the environment family is created, you can add applications subscriptions, but you can't remove them from the environment family.

6. Confirm or change the assigned region.

   The region is where the environments will be geographically located. The region can't be changed after you create the environment family. All environments that you create will be in the region you assign to the family. For more information, see Choosing a Region for an Environment Family.

7. Click Show advanced options to:
   • Select a different compartment (this can be changed later).
   • Customize the maintenance schedule (the quarterly schedule selection can't be changed later).
   • Apply tags (these can be added later).
   If you don't want to configure these options now, click Create Environment Family. To configure these options now, continue with optional Steps 7 through 9.
8. (Optional) Confirm the compartment or select the compartment where you want to create this environment family. For more information about compartments, see Choosing a Compartment.
9. (Optional) Click the Maintenance tab to customize the maintenance schedule. The maintenance schedule you set up for the environment family is the default for all the environments in the family. You can't change the quarterly update schedule after you create the environment family. For environments that you create in this family, you can customize the monthly patching. For more information about these options, see Understanding Environment Maintenance
   • Quarterly schedule – select the checkbox and then choose the maintenance month group that you want to use for the environments in the family. You can't update this choice later. If your environment family includes Oracle Payroll the schedule is set as Feb/May/August/November, and can't be updated.
   • Monthly patching – enable the switch to activate monthly patching for the environments in this family. Monthly patching delivers bug fixes every month so you don't have to wait until the quarterly update for these fixes. Features and other updates are still delivered on the quarterly schedule, and are not included in monthly patching.
10. (Optional) Click the Tags tab to add tags to the environment family. If you have permissions to create a resource, then you also have permissions to apply free-form tags to that resource. To apply a defined tag, you must have permissions to use the tag namespace. For more information about tagging, see Resource Tags. If you're not sure whether to apply tags, skip this option or ask an administrator. You can apply tags later.
11. Click Create environment family.
12. You'll be asked to confirm the region where the environment family is to be created. Click Confirm.

1. Navigate to the environment family: On the Applications tab of the Console, click Fusion Applications. On the Overview page, click the environment family name.
2. On the environment family details page, under Resources, click Subscriptions to see the list of subscriptions included in the environment family.
3. Click the expander next to the listing to see the product and quantity included in each subscription.

If you order changes to existing Fusion Applications subscriptions, use this procedure to apply the updates to the applications in the environment family.

1. Navigate to the environment family: On the Applications tab of the Console, click Fusion Applications. On the Overview page, click the environment family name.
2. On the environment family details page, under Resources, click Subscriptions.
3. Click Edit subscription.
4. On the Edit subscription page under Edit applications, information is displayed about subscription updates available to apply to the applications in this environment family.
5. Click Save changes to apply the subscription updates.

You can't edit the quarterly maintenance schedule. To change your quarterly maintenance months, you must Open a Support Request.

Note that the maintenance schedule you set up for the environment family is the default for all the environments in the family. The changes you make here will apply to all environments in the family that do not have a custom schedule set up.

1. On the environment family details page, under Resources, click Maintenance.
2. Click Edit schedule. You can edit the following:
   • Monthly patching – enable or disable the switch to activate or deactivate monthly patching for the environments in this family. Monthly patching delivers bug fixes every month so you don't have to wait until the quarterly update.
3. Click Save Changes.

You can move an environment family from one compartment  to another. After you move an environment family to a new compartment, the policies for the destination compartment apply immediately and affect access to the environment family. Moving an environment family doesn't move the environments in the family.

1. On the environment family details page, open the More Actions menu.
2. Click Move.
3. Choose the destination compartment from the list.
4. Click Move environment family.

You can delete an environment family if it is empty (for example, you created it by mistake) or if you have already deleted the environments in the family.

1. Navigate to the environment family: On the Applications tab of the Console, click Fusion Applications. On the Overview page, click the environment family name.
2. Confirm that any environments listed are in the Deleted state.
3. Click More Actions and then click Delete.
4. To confirm deletion, type the environment family name and then click Delete.