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Getting email Notifications in ExaCC for Operational Activities

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It can be very helpful to get notifications from your Exadata Cloud at Customer operational activities.   Notifications can be sent when pre-defined "Events" occur in your ExaCC environment.   This blog will show you how to define rules which will send email based on the events which occur.  Note - these events are only triggered when using OCI tooling like the gui interface, OCI cli, or rest API's. First - the basic process.    Step 1 - you create a OCI Topic.   This is a category or grouping for alerts.   For example, maybe you can create a topic for virtual cluster changes, database and pluggable database administration, and ExaCC infrastructure maintenance.   There are other Event types too. Step 2 - individuals with access to the OCI tenancy can subscribe to these topics.   When subscribing to topic, the user will get an email to confirm the subscription. Step 3 - you will create a rule.  The rule identifies...
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Using dbaascli to Manage Oracle CDB and PDB's with Exadata Cloud at Customer (ExaC@C)

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  Using dbaacli with ExaC@C There are several ways to manage databases and pluggable databases with Oracle Exadata Cloud at Customer.    The OCI GUI is a graphical way to handle many basic functions such as building a DB, adding automatic backups, creating a data guard standby DB, and databases databases.    There are API’s, rest API’s,   and SDK’s which run in the OCI tenancy and manage the DB and PDB’s.    dbaascli is a tool which runs locally on the Exadata VM which can be used to manage DB’s and PDB’s.   dbaacli interacts with a db sync process which will then update OCI much of the DB management activities.    For example – build a DB with dbaascli, and it will show up in OCI GUI. It is possible to manage your DB’s and PDB’s without cloud tooling, but if that is done, then the OCI layer will not know about these activities.    For example, if you were to restore a DB from a backup onto the ExaC@C virtual clust...
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