#1124 - OIC Announcements

Introduction

According to the docs - System announcements provide timely and important information to Oracle Integration users. Your tenancy displays system announcements only after an administrator creates a policy that allows the announcements. Creating the policy is a one-time action that applies to all Oracle Integration instances in the tenancy.

I check out my OIC instance - 

and see nada. It is imperative to activate announcements in the OIC UI, because many OIC users do not have OCI console access, and this information can be crucial. 

So here are the 2 policies I need to apply - 

allow service integration to {ANNOUNCEMENT_LIST} in tenancy

allow service integration to {ANNOUNCEMENT_READ} in tenancy

These I apply in the root compartment.

But, before I do that, let's check out the announcements in the OCI console - Governance & Administration -> Announcements - 

Here is one such announcement - 

Note, I have 4 of these announcements, why so many?

Let's take a step back - I am viewing these announcements in the context of a specific compartment. I check how many OIC instances I have in this compartment - 3 in one region, another in Chicago.

Now back to the announcements- 

I open the first one - and click on Impacted resources - 

Ok, so that's my NiallC-Demo instance addressed.

I could now mark that announcement as read - 

The second announcement is for the resource - devShape.

The 3rd is for Ruck3.
The 4th is for the OIC instance in Chicago.

 

That's that cleared up; net, net - one announcement per service instance.

Now I'll apply the policy at root level - 

Now back to my OIC UI - 

Announcements are now surfaced.

Summa Summarum

This is a must do for OIC admins, so, hopefully, you've all done it, if not...