Getting email Notifications in ExaCC for Operational Activities
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...