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Manage Oracle Linux at Scale with Groups

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Details

Learn to manage Oracle Linux updates for many OCI compute instances as a unified and standardized group in Oracle OS Management Hub.

Objectives

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to:

  • Create a group in Oracle OS Management Hub
  • Create a group profile to register OCI Compute instances
  • Manage group members by adding and removing compute instances
  • Manage the group manifest by installing and removing Oracle Linux Packages and Modules
  • Review group reports for OS enhancements, security updates, bug fixes, and instance activity
  • Immediately run update jobs and schedule recurring updates for the group
  • Monitor job statuses and view associated work

Prerequisites

Access to an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure tenancy with:

  • An administrative user group, a dynamic group identifying instance resources, and the IAM policies that enable OS Management Hub.
  • Oracle Linux compute instances.
  • Virtual Cloud Network (VCN) or configured network access that supports OS Management Hub.