Ability to schedule/automate OAC snapshot in a way that does not expose passwords in clear text

Marcelo Finkielsztein

Organization Name (Required - If you are an Oracle Partner, please provide the organization you are logging the idea on behalf of):

Postmedia Network Inc

Description (Required):

We will appreciate teh ability to schedule/automate OAC snapshot in a way that does not expose passwords in clear text.

A few specs:

• ability to schedule taking a snapshot
• and/or ability to run a snapshot via a CLI command WITHOUT EXPOSING PASSWORDS IN PLAIN TEXT.
• ability to achieve the above WITHOUT requiring programming skills or knwo. We expect this to be a task that any OAC administrator can do, without knowledge of JWT assertions, without programming an API, etc.

Please note: After a frustrating experience trying to follow the provided documentation which is incomplete, I opened an SR asking help from Oracle to accomplish this by using JWT assertions, client API programmed in house, etc. I had to give up after months of trying without success. At some point, someone from a Developer team joined the zoom sessions and after a long session (or maybe more than one? dont remember) ended up declaring these programming skills must be aquired by the customer; and Oracle is not responsible for teaching them to the customer. Since I did not have the time to start investigating, I had to give up and we still are taking snapshots manually.

Use Case and Business Need (Required):

we need to take daily or weekly snapshots. we expect this to be an automatic task, not manual. we cannot use any scripts that will expose passwords in clear text. we expect this to be done by an OAC administrator with usual skill set, without requiring assistance from programmers.

Enhancement Request / Service Request:

SR 3-30709975338 and SR 3-31032253401