Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Adapter

IT Asset Management (Cloud)

This chapter introduces the OCI adapter, with a particular focus on managing licenses that you provide for software used in the cloud (often called "bring your own [software] license", or BYOL).

Note: The subject of this document is not related to the purchase of Oracle Autonomous Databases fully provisioned by Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (licenses included). Purchasing Oracle Autonomous Databases fully provisioned by Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (licenses included) is of less interest to your license management team, and perhaps more important to your finance team.

The OCI adapter serves two main purposes:

• • It performs discovery of Oracle Autonomous Database installations in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Exadata Cloud@Customer. From the data uploaded by the OCI adapter, IT Asset Management automatically creates discovered devices, inventory devices, database instances and database option records.
  • It tracks instances (typically, virtual machines that are tracked as inventory devices) that are hosted for you in the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

In relation to Compute instances, the OCI adapter is only a part of a complete BYOL management strategy for this cloud service provider. By itself, the OCI adapter does not gather sufficient data to allow for license management: for example, it does not gather software inventory for the applications that are running on your cloud-hosted devices.

This topic focuses on background information, and the prerequisite software you need in order to build license management around the OCI adapter. For step-by-step instructions for configuring the connection to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and choosing the correct connection method for your business processes (there are three methods available), see Managing Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Connection in the Online Help.

BYOL Licensing Considerations

The OCI adapter gathers information for every Oracle Autonomous Database accessible to the querying user, though it will only import those databases configured to use the Bring your own license (BYOL) model. This means all databases using the License included model will not be shown in IT Asset Management.

The OCI adapter gathers a snapshot of your Oracle Autonomous Database inventory at the moment of the scan, including stopped instances. Autonomous database instances terminated before the scan will not be returned.