[Oracle Integration Cloud] ICS, PCS, VBCS Console Walkthrough

This post covers the Console Walkthrough of Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC) Service.

If you are new to Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC), then check out our blogs below as these contains all the key points that a beginner should know about Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC) and create Oracle Integration Instance.

• Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC) For Beginners Overview
• Create Oracle Integration Cloud Instance: Step by Step

You will use below consoles in Oracle Integration Cloud:

1. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Console
2. My Services Dashboard Console
3. Oracle Integration Console
4. Oracle Integration Processes Console
5. Oracle Integration Visual Builder Console
6. Oracle Integration Designer Console

When you register to the Oracle cloud to create cloud Account (Follow our step by step guide at https://k21academy.com/cloud01 for FREE Oracle Cloud Trial Account), then after login to your Oracle Cloud account, you will be able to check the first two consoles that are Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Console and My Services Dashboard Console.

But to check the last four consoles, you first need to provision the Integration Instance and after that only you will be able to see these four consoles. To Create OIC instance, check our previous post here.

1. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Console: 

• Once you register to the Oracle cloud Account and login via your credentials then the first screen you will see is OCI Console home page.

• Use the Navigation menu in the upper left to navigate to the service pages where you create, manage, and view your cloud resources and lots of other options are there.

• The Help menu () provides links to the documentation and to Oracle Support.

2. My Services Dashboard Console

• The My Services Dashboard is your starting point for managing your cloud services. To navigate to My Services Dashboard, Click on Navigation Menu and then My Services Dashboard.

• On this Console, You can view and access your platform cloud services, create and manage additional users, and monitor your billing and service usage of platform cloud services.

• The bell icon displays important notifications, if any, at the top of the page. This is known as the Message Center and indicates important messages for the selected domain or account.
• Click the Users icon to open the My Services Users page to manage users and perform access control.

• You can navigate to different pages of My Services by using the quick navigation menu icon located at the top-left corner of the page header.

• To add a Service on Dashboard, you can click on the Customize Dashboard.

• For example, Enable Integration Cloud Service and this option will be visible on the Dashboard now.
  

3. Oracle Integration Console:

Note: To navigate through the Integration  Designer Console, You first need to Create an integration Instance (Click here to check the steps to create Integration Instance).

• Once you create an OIC instance, then click on the Hamburger menu of the created instance and then Click on Open Oracle Integration Home Page to open the Oracle Integration Cloud Console.

• The home page provides links to the features of Oracle Integration Cloud Service such as connections, integrations, monitoring, lookups, packages, agents, adapters, and libraries.

• The Navigation Pane in the upper left corner provides you with access to all the development features in Oracle Integration Cloud Service.

4. Oracle Integration Processes Console:

• Once you have created an Instance of Oracle Integration, navigate to Oracle Integration home page and click My Tasks to view your tasks and manage your work.

• From the Navigation Pane, Use the Processes feature to rapidly design, automate, and manage business processes in the cloud.

• There are a number of tabs available on the homepage under the Hamburger menu. Here is a short introduction to each of these Tabs:
  
  a)  Process Applications: The Process Applications page provides access to common process application-related features. Using Process Applications, you can create applications from scratch, based on a QuickStart App, or by importing and Manage your applications, including viewing, unlocking, cloning, downloading, and deleting.
  b)  Decision Models: Create decision models to make your business processes less complex, easier to manage, and more robust in the face of change.  Instead of creating multiple decisions, you can create a decision model consisting of decisions and sub-decisions, and associated decision services to allow you to use the decision model in your business processes.
  c)  Spaces: Use this option to create, manage and delete spaces.
  d)  Administration: This is used for the Administration of spaces, Applications, Quick start apps, Player and Import.

5. Oracle Integration Visual Builder Console:

• From the Navigation Pane, Use the Visual Builder feature to quickly build custom web and mobile applications that can integrate with Oracle SaaS and Paas using Fusion Applications REST services.
• There are a number of tabs available on the homepage under the Hamburger menu. Here is a short introduction to each of these Tabs:
  
  a)  All Applications: It will show all the applications that you have created or imported. You only see above Landing page if you log in to Visual Builder and you do not have any applications. You can click New Application to open the Create Application wizard or you can Import Application.
  b)  Settings: You can check and set the Tenant settings here.
  c)  Certificates: You can check all the certificates here.

6. Oracle Integration Designer Console:

• Once you have created an Instance of Oracle Integration, navigate Oracle Integration home page and click on Integrations from Navigation pane and it will show all the options available therein Designer Console.

• There are a number of tabs available on the homepage under the Hamburger menu. Here is a short introduction to each of these Tabs:
  
  a)  Integrations: Integrations are processes which utilize connections (among other things) to implement a business process.
  b)  Connections: Connections are the various connectors which can be utilized to communicate with external applications. Communication can be done with conventional systems like File, FTP, etc., and also with new social media and other applications, like LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Evernote, etc.
  c)  Lookups: A bit like DVMs in SOA Suite, can cross-reference values of the same attribute/element when mapping from one system to another.
  d)  Packages: A bit like partitions in EM console, can be used to group together similar integrations.
  e)  Agents: Agents are used to connecting to on-premise applications. For example, if you are using on-premise systems like ERP/SAP and also using Oracle OIC in the same implementation, you would have to use an agent to connect to the OIC application.
  f)  Adapters: Adapters lists all the adapters that are available for external communication. Currently, about 50 adapters are offered.

This is all in nutshell about Oracle Integration Cloud Consoles. We cover this in Provisioning Instance and Console walkthrough module of our Oracle Integration Cloud Services Training (To register for FREE Masterclass, click here) where we also cover about configuring Adaptors and connections, Configuring integrations, Data Mapping, Lookups, SaaS, On-premises integration agents, Security, Schedules, Versioning, Activating, Monitoring integrations and much more.

Related Links:

•  Step by Step guide here to get FREE Oracle cloud account.
• Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC) For Beginners Overview
• Create Oracle Integration Cloud Instance: Step by Step
• Oracle Integration Cloud Services (OIC) Training: Step By Step Activity Guides/Hands-On Lab Exercise

Next Task for you:

1. If you don’t have a FREE Oracle cloud account yet, then follow our step by step guide here to get the same.
2. Create an OIC Instance using the steps given here.
3. Navigate through the Consoles as given in this Post.
4. Register for our FREE Masterclass on “Be an Integration Expert with Oracle Integration Cloud Services”? by clicking on the image below.

Check out our FREE Guide on “25 Exam Questions for Oracle Integration Cloud Service” that will help you to clear your doubts and concepts about OIC before starting your career in this. Click on the Below image to download the free guide.

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