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An Advanced Guide to OIC Notification via Emails by Renukaradhya Dakshinamurthy

Introduction:

• Do you know how SMTP servers detect spoofs or detect the forging of the visible sender?
• Do you know how SMTP servers detect sender is legitimate?

This blog is an answer to the above questions.

With the migration of customers from OIC Generation 1 to Generation 2, we have changed the underlying stack that sends email from Cloud Notification Service (CNS) to OCI Email Service. With this, the SPF and DKIM configuration previously done will not be valid anymore and these need to be reconfigured to increase the deliverability.

Using your own from address for Gen2

If you are willing to use your own "from" address like no-reply@oraclecloud.com. You have to follow the below 2 steps.

• You have to register the from address in Settings->Notification Screen.
• You have to configure SPF and DKIM on the sender domain i.e oraclecloud.com. More information on SPF and DKIM is below.

SPF

SPF is an acronym for “Sender Policy Framework”. SPF is a DNS TXT record that specifies which IP addresses and/or servers are allowed to send email “from” that particular domain. A domain administrator publishes the policy defining mail servers that are authorized to send email from that domain. when an email is received the inbound SMTP server then compares the IP address of the mail sender with the authorized IP addresses defined in the SPF record. An example of SPF record for oraclecloud.com is like below. Read the complete article here.

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Creating Complex Local Temporary Variables in OIC by John Graves

Introduction

Over the past couple of years, I have been involved in more and more projects and proofs-of-concept moving assets from Oracle SOA Suite to Oracle Integration Cloud.

Now it is important to note that these are quite different products and serve different needs.  SOA Suite is a very extensive tool which allows you to create apps, user interfaces, integrations and much more.  Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC) is more focused on just integration.  However, many companies have used SOA Suite simply for integration purposes and making the move to OIC attractive.

There are many actions in the world of BPEL that don’t yet exist in OIC, but one that is particularly troublesome is the lack of local variables.  It is often convenient in BPEL to use a local variable to make future mappings easier in the integration.  SOA Suite’s BPEL lets you create arbitrary variables of any shape and size based on a schema definition.  In OIC, local variables are either a string or based on a trigger or invoke operation.

Data Stitch

The new Data Stitch action almost gets us there, but again, the stitch variable must be a type already defined by a trigger or invoke.  You can’t define a schema for the variable if it does not already exist.

Solution

STAGE FILE to the rescue!!!

As you may know, you can use the stage file action to create a file on the local, in-memory, temporary filesystem.  This is very handy when manipulating files, performing zip and unzip operations and preparing files for file based integrations such as ERP Cloud.  But it can also be used to create temporary, local variables! Read the complete article here.

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OIC Technical Accelerator – Alert Notifications by Niall Commiskey

What is it?

A technical accelerator package that allows one to send Alert Notifications from your integrations, based on a variety of parameters:

• channels – EMAIL, Pager, JIRA, Custom
• integrations – different channels/recipents for different integrations etc.
• Errors/Failure Messages -  different channels/recipients based on the error message thrown etc.

Ergo, this technical accelerator is designed to be called from one or more of your integrations.

What’s in it?

The Accelerator contains the following artifacts –

• integration – Oracle Alerting Service
• connection – Oracle altering Service Invoke
• lookups – 3 of them – discussed below. Read the complete article here.

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How to configure endpoints of ORDS Connections in OIC? By Jan Kettenis

This article discussed how to configure the endpoint of a Connection to an ORDS REST service (AutoREST or REST Module) in such a way that you have the right part of the URI in the right place and can easily refactor it or promote your application to another environment.

To call Oracle Rest Data Services (ORDS) from an Oracle Database (DBCS or ATP) you create a REST Invoke Connection (not also Trigger, as the DB will not call you back).

To make the database supporting ORDS you must enable REST Services on the schema whereby you configure an alias, for example "my_schema_alias" which becomes part of the URL of the endpoint of the REST service. The question is where to put that alias: in the configuration of the Connection or in the relative resource URI’s in the Integrations? Read the complete article here.

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