Oracle Linux 7 instances created using Oracle-Provided Images on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) include a pre-installed set of utilities that are designed to facilitate configuration tasks for Oracle Linux instances. These utilities consist of a set command line tools included in the oci-utils RPM package that is pre-installed with the latest Oracle Linux 7 images provided under the ‘Oracle-Provided OS Image’ selection when creating an instance from the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure console.
The following OCI utilities are available in the oci-utils package:
- oci-iscsi-config – Displays and attaches/detaches iSCSI devices on Oracle Linux instances.
- oci-network-config – Displays instance VNICs, configures secondary VNICs, and auto-synchronizes VNIC IP configurations.
- oci-network-inspector – Displays network information for an OCI Virtual Cloud Network (VCN), compartment, or tenancy, including the security list, and IP addresses of VNICs and instances.
- oci-metadata – Queries instance metadata such as the OCI region, availability domain, shape, state, OCID, compartment, and network.
- oci-public-ip – Displays the instance public IP address.
- ocid – This is the oci-utils service daemon component.
For more information on OCI utilities and how to use the scripts, visit the following links:
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