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Use PAC to reach all private cloud and on-premise services (FTP-SMTP etc)

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Andrea D'Angelo
Andrea D'Angelo Rank 1 - Community Starter
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Hello,

actually PAC (Private Access Channel) guarantees only DB data connection, but if you use Publisher to send files via FTP or EMAIL notification, PAC doesn't officially support this services.

Nevertheless, actually SMTP is working, FTP it isn't.

Please, consider PAC as a full network interface facing Oracle private cloud, in order to bring to OAC all services available on Oracle private cloud and on-premise.

Use Case and Business Need

OAC Publisher actually have to use a public FTP server to send reports, and also the mail server to send the notification should be public, because on-premise services are not officially supported.

Using PAC as a full network interface (as it already is), all services on Oracle private cloud (and on-premise) will be available to OAC!

Please note that some of this services already work (i. e. SMTP), but the support is not guarantee, then some services are not working (i. e. FTP server).

More details

We need to send reports on FTP private server because we don't want to share our sensible data to a public FTP server.

Furthermore, we would use services available on Oracle private cloud or on-premise through Oracle private-cloud

Original Idea Number: d83761d78b

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  • Marcelo Finkielsztein
    Marcelo Finkielsztein Rank 6 - Analytics Lead

    We would appreciate this feature

  • Alan Lee - Oracle-Oracle
    Alan Lee - Oracle-Oracle Mod

    As an alternative to FTP, a recent feature to send Publisher output to OCI Storage is available:  

    https://docs.oracle.com/en/cloud/paas/analytics-cloud/acabi/set-delivery-destinations.html#GUID-255CE481-A1E6-427D-863B-AAD0B2B735EC

     

  • IainBell
    IainBell Rank 1 - Community Starter

    Absolutely agree this would be very useful. The OAC team could perhaps look at how the Oracle Integration Team have have implemented Private Endpoints which gives you access to a subnet as opposed to the PAC approach where you have to list targets.

  • Melanie'
    Melanie' Rank 4 - Community Specialist

    I have a global customer who desperately needs this but we need this functionality although object storage maybe a work around it doesn't support dual running with OBIEE

  • User_UGJSW
    User_UGJSW Rank 1 - Community Starter

    Using a PAC (Proxy Auto-Config) file to route traffic to private cloud and on-premise services like FTP, SMTP, etc. can work, but with limitations. PAC is great for controlling browser traffic (mainly HTTP/HTTPS), but protocols like FTP and SMTP don’t always respect PAC rules unless they’re handled through specific proxy-aware clients or gateway setups.

    For full network-level access across services, setting up a VPN or using a proxy server that supports multiple protocols might be more reliable. Anyone here managed to get full service routing via PAC alone? Would love to hear how it was handled.