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How to use the Oracle Forms 12.2.1.4 Marketplace Image<\/h1>\n

As you may have read in our last blog post on <\/span>Oracle Forms 12.2.1.4<\/span><\/a>, Oracle provides the latest release of Oracle Forms & Reports 12.2.1.4 as Oracle Cloud enabled Image on their Marketplace. Michael Ferrante, Oracle Principal Product Manager for Forms and Reports, mentioned in numerous <\/span>tweets<\/span><\/a>, that it takes less than 15 minutes to setup a running Forms environment in the Cloud.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Our last 5 customer installations of the PITSS Forms & Reports Manager are based on that image and provide the full scope of features and benefits of the PITSS Forms & Reports Manager, which is architectured by the coexisting of Oracle Forms, APEX, Database and integration with SVN, Git, Jira and numerous scripting in the backend.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In this post we would like to share some experiences we had by setting up Forms 12.2.1.4 from the Oracle Marketplace.<\/span><\/p>\n

Before you start<\/span><\/h2>\n

… please keep in mind that you must have access to the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Service (OCI). Inside your specific OCI you can logically organize your machines into different compartments. We as PITSS for an example, divide on the highest level between a compartment for our internal systems (e.g. for Presales, Demo or Testing purpose) and a compartment for our customers, with one compartment for each customer. Compartments help to restrict access to the machines and ease the customer interaction.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Inside the compartment you could setup the network (that is the ip-range of the machines), and additional firewall and security rules. Once you have setup a compartment you can start using the Marketplace Image. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Choosing a domain<\/h2>\n

While creating the instance based on the image, you can choose one of the available domains. In our case, this is one of the three domains located in Frankfurt.<\/span><\/p>\n

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If you like to setup a farm of different instances and don\u2019t like to rely on the availability of the Oracle Domains, you could spread the instances over different domains. In this case, you should take care of synchronization on your own. For each instance you could choose a FaultDomain, which is used in case of a switch over. Best practise is not to use the same FaultDomain for each of your Compute Instances.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Choosing an instant type<\/h2>\n

After that step you could decide which kind of instant type you like to use.<\/span><\/p>\n

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If you like to ensure that there is no other processes running on the same hardware other than yours, you can choose \u201cBare-Metal-Machine\u201d, but it is more costly than the \u201cvirtual machine\u201d instance type. We have experienced good performance with the virtual instance type, so we rely on this.<\/span><\/p>\n

Licence<\/h2>\n

In the BYOL (bring your own licence) software licence model you should be aware that the OCPU configuration will influence the licence costs for the environment.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

If you would like to access the machine later, through the Internet (like we do with our customers who use the PITSS Forms & Reports Manager with the Forms Standalone Launcher), Oracle provides public IP-Addresses for the machine.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Setup<\/h2>\n

You proceed through four more wizard steps to:<\/span><\/p>\n