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1<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
2<!DOCTYPE topic PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DITA Topic//EN" "topic.dtd">
3<topic xml:lang="en-us" id="cloud-using-cloud-profile-manager">
4 <title>Using the Cloud Profile Manager</title>
5
6 <body>
7 <p>
8 This section describes how to use the Cloud Profile Manager to
9 create a cloud profile.
10 </p>
11 <p>
12 To open the Cloud Profile Manager click
13 <b outputclass="bold">File</b>,
14 <b outputclass="bold">Cloud Profile Manager</b> in
15 <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/vbox-mgr"/>.
16 </p>
17 <fig id="fig-cloud-profile-manager">
18 <title>The Cloud Profile Manager</title>
19 <xref href="images/cloud-profile-manager.png" format="png" platform="htmlhelp">
20 <image href="images/cloud-profile-manager.png" width="12cm" placement="break">
21 <alt>The Cloud Profile Manager</alt>
22 </image>
23 </xref>
24 <image href="images/cloud-profile-manager.png" width="12cm" placement="break" platform="ohc">
25 <alt>The Cloud Profile Manager</alt>
26 </image>
27 </fig>
28 <p>
29 You can use the Cloud Profile Manager in the following ways:
30 </p>
31 <ul>
32 <li>
33 <p>
34 To create a new cloud profile automatically
35 </p>
36 </li>
37 <li>
38 <p>
39 To create a cloud profile by importing settings from your
40 <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/oci"/> configuration file.
41 </p>
42 </li>
43 </ul>
44 <p>
45 Perform the following steps to create a new cloud profile
46 automatically, using the Cloud Profile Manager:
47 </p>
48 <ol>
49 <li>
50 <p>
51 Click the <b outputclass="bold">Add</b> icon and
52 specify a <b outputclass="bold">Name</b> for the
53 profile.
54 </p>
55 </li>
56 <li>
57 <p>
58 Click <b outputclass="bold">Properties</b> and
59 specify the following property values for the profile:
60 </p>
61 <ul>
62 <li>
63 <p>
64 Compartment OCID
65 </p>
66 </li>
67 <li>
68 <p>
69 Fingerprint of the public key
70 </p>
71 </li>
72 <li>
73 <p>
74 Location of the private key on the client device
75 </p>
76 </li>
77 <li>
78 <p>
79 Region OCID
80 </p>
81 </li>
82 <li>
83 <p>
84 Tenancy OCID
85 </p>
86 </li>
87 <li>
88 <p>
89 User OCID
90 </p>
91 </li>
92 </ul>
93 <p>
94 Some of these are settings for your <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/oci"/> account, which you
95 can view from the <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/oci"/> Console.
96 </p>
97 </li>
98 <li>
99 <p>
100 (Optional) If you are using the cloud profile to connect to
101 cloud virtual machines, select the
102 <b outputclass="bold">Show VMs</b> check box.
103 </p>
104 <p>
105 This creates a new subgroup of the
106 <b outputclass="bold">OCI</b> group in <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/vbox-mgr"/>.
107 See <xref href="cloud-vm-oci-group.dita#cloud-vm-oci-group"/>.
108 </p>
109 </li>
110 <li>
111 <p>
112 Click <b outputclass="bold">Apply</b> to save your
113 changes.
114 </p>
115 <p>
116 The cloud profile settings are saved to the
117 <filepath>oci_config</filepath> file in your <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/>
118 global settings directory.
119 </p>
120 </li>
121 </ol>
122 <p>
123 Perform the following steps to import an existing <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/oci"/>
124 configuration file into the Cloud Profile Manager:
125 </p>
126 <ol>
127 <li>
128 <p>
129 Ensure that a <filepath>config</filepath> file is present in
130 your <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/oci"/> configuration directory. For example, this is
131 <filepath>$HOME/.oci/config</filepath> on a Linux host.
132 </p>
133 </li>
134 <li>
135 <p>
136 Click the <b outputclass="bold">Import</b> icon to
137 open a dialog that prompts you to import cloud profiles from
138 external files.
139 </p>
140 <note type="attention">
141 <p>
142 This action overwrites any cloud profiles that are in your
143 <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/> global settings directory.
144 </p>
145 </note>
146 </li>
147 <li>
148 <p>
149 Click <b outputclass="bold">Import</b>.
150 </p>
151 <p>
152 Your cloud profile settings are saved to the
153 <filepath>oci_config</filepath> file in your <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/>
154 global settings directory.
155 </p>
156 </li>
157 <li>
158 <p>
159 Click <b outputclass="bold">Properties</b> to show
160 the cloud profile settings.
161 </p>
162 <p>
163 Double-click on the appropriate field to change the value.
164 </p>
165 </li>
166 <li>
167 <p>
168 Click <b outputclass="bold">Apply</b> to save your
169 changes.
170 </p>
171 </li>
172 </ol>
173 </body>
174
175</topic>
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