IT Asset Management
(Cloud)
This chapter introduces the OCI adapter, with a particular focus on managing licenses that
you assign to Oracle Autonomous Databases (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 one main purposeāIt 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.
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.
Note: The beta version of the OCI adapter
allows for only one connection to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) to be
configured.
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.
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