Perform General Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Prerequisite Tasks

As a first step towards getting started with Database Management for Oracle Databases, your tenancy administrator must perform the general Oracle Cloud Infrastructure prerequisite tasks listed in the following table.

Task Description More Information
Create Oracle Cloud Infrastructure IAM user groups The tenancy administrator must create Identity and Access Management (IAM) groups with users who will enable and use Database Management. It's recommended that you create separate user groups to perform the following tasks:
  • Enable Database Management

  • Use Database Management features

For information on how to create an IAM user group, see To create a group.

For information on how to create a user and add a user to a group, see To create a user and To add a user to a group.

Create policies to assign permissions to user groups The IAM user groups must be assigned the required permissions using policies to enable and use Database Management. As mentioned in the preceding row, it's recommended that there's a separation of duties and you create policies to assign permissions to enable and use Database Management to separate user groups. For information on how to create policies, see Managing Policies.

For information on the permissions required to enable and use Database Management, see Obtain Required Permissions.