Obtain the Compartment Identifier

Obtain the Oracle Cloud identifier of the root compartment so that you can later create a cloud credential in NavOps.

You must already have signed up for an Oracle Cloud account and have an associated tenancy.

Oracle documentation can be found at Understand Compartments.

When your tenancy is provisioned, a root compartment is created for you. Compartments can be used to organize and isolate your resources to make it easier to manage and secure access to them. Your root compartment holds all of your cloud resources. You can think of the root compartment like a root folder in a file system. The first time you sign in to the Oracle Cloud Console and select a service, you will see your root compartment. All the resources required for cloud scaling will be contained in this root compartment. You will need the root compartment's resource identifier to add an Oracle cloud credential to NavOps. Once this task is complete, you should have the following information stored in a file:
  • The compartment's Oracle Cloud ID (OCID).
  1. Login to the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure console.
  2. Click located in the upper left-hand corner of the web page.
  3. Click Identity & Security > Compartments.
  4. Click Show located under the name of the root compartment.
    The compartment's OCID is displayed.
  5. Click Copy to copy the OCID.
  6. Store the OCID to a file.
    The OCID is used later to create a cloud credential in NavOps.