About Setting Up Users, Groups, and Policies

Managing users, groups, and policies for access to Oracle Integration differs depending on whether your tenancy uses identity domains.

Where You Manage Users and Groups

Beginning in March 2023, Oracle began a region-by-region migration of all tenancies to use identity domains. Tenancy owners will be notified two weeks prior to the migration of their tenancy. All IDCS instances in the tenancy will be converted at the same time regardless of the IDCS home region.

Your tenancy already uses identity domains if Oracle updated your region to use identity domains before you created your tenancy. However, if Oracle updated your region to use identity domains after you created your tenancy, then your tenancy will be migrated.

The migration to identity domains includes the migration of all users, groups, and role. During the period that Oracle is migrating tenancies, you manage users, groups, and roles depending on the status of your tenancy:

Manage users, groups, and roles in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Identity and Access Management (IAM) if either of the following are true:
- Oracle updated your region to use identity domains before you created your tenancy
- Or, Oracle has migrated existing tenancies in your region to use identity domains
In either scenario, you do not use Oracle Identity Cloud Service (IDCS) or federation to set up users and groups.
Manage users, groups, and roles in both IDCS and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure IAM, linked using federation, if both of the following are true:
- Oracle updated your region to use identity domains after you created your tenancy
- And, Oracle has not yet migrated existing tenancies in your region to use identity domains

Determine Whether a Cloud Account Uses Identity Domains

To determine whether your cloud account uses identity domains, open the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure navigation menu and click Identity & Security. Under Identity, check for Domains:

If Domains is listed, then your cloud account uses identity domains. See Set Up Users, Groups, and Policies in Cloud Accounts That Use Identity Domains.
If Domains is not listed, then your cloud account is still configured to link identities in IDCS and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure IAM using federation. See Set Up Users, Groups, and Policies in Cloud Accounts That Do Not Use Identity Domains.

The following table outlines the differences between the two configurations.

Cloud Accounts That Use Identity Domains	Cloud Accounts That Do Not Use Identity Domains
Users and groups are configured in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure IAM.	Users and groups are configured in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure IAM and IDCS, linked through federation. See Understand Oracle Integration Federation. Note: Read only users can be assigned to an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure group only and not to an IDCS group.
The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure IAM service provides a single unified console for managing users, groups, dynamic groups, and applications in domains.	Oracle Cloud Infrastructure IAM must be federated with IDCS for your tenancy.
Provides Single Sign-On to more applications using a single set of credentials and a unified authentication process.	Requires separate federated credentials for IDCS.
The Federation page does not list any IDCS entries.	The Federation page lists the primordial IDCS type that is automatically federated as part of the cloud account creation.

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Documentation