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