Groups and roles in Oracle Database@Azure

This article lists groups and roles you use to manage access to Oracle Database@Azure. Using these groups and roles ensures that assigned users have the appropriate permissions to operate the service.

Groups and roles in Azure

Use the following groups in your Azure account:

Group name Azure role assigned description
odbaa-exa-infra-administrators odbaa-exa-infra-administrator This group is for administrators who need to manage all Oracle Exadata Database@Azure resources in Azure.
odbaa-vm-cluster-administrators odbaa-vm-cluster-administrator Users in this group can administer virtual machine (VM) cluster resources in Azure.
odbaa-db-family-administrators Not applicable This group is replicated in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) during the optional identity federation process. OCI policies are defined for this group in the Oracle Cloud environment.
odbaa-db-family-readers Not applicable This group is replicated in OCI during the optional identity federation process. OCI policies are defined for this group in the Oracle Cloud environment.
odbaa-exa-cdb-administrators Not applicable This group is replicated in OCI during the optional identity federation process. OCI policies are defined for this group in the Oracle Cloud environment.
odbaa-exa-pdb-administrators Not applicable This group is replicated in OCI during the optional identity federation process. OCI policies are defined for this group in the Oracle Cloud environment.

Groups in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Use the following groups in your OCI tenancy:

Group name Description
odbaa-db-family-administrators Users in this group are administrators who manage database family actions.
odbaa-db-family-readers Users in this group are administrators who read database family actions.
odbaa-exa-cdb-administrators Users in this group are administrators who manage Oracle Container Database (CDB) actions.
odbaa-exa-pdb-administrators Users in this group are administrators who manage Oracle Pluggable Database (PDB) actions.

Required Identity and Access Management policies

The following Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies are required for each user and each group in Oracle Database@Azure:

  • Allow any-user to use tag-namespaces in tenancy where request.principal.type = ‘multicloudlink’
  • Allow any-user to manage tag-defaults in tenancy where request.principal.type = ‘multicloudlink’

For information about working with policies, see Get started with policies in Oracle databases.