Stop or Start an Oracle Integration Instance

You can stop and start Oracle Integration 3 instances.

In the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Console, Oracle Integration instances that are running show a status of Active and instances that are stopped show a status as Inactive.


List of Oracle Integration instances showing active and inactive status

Note:

  • Oracle recommends that you don't stop instances running in a production environment.
  • Oracle recommends that you don't stop or start instances on a nightly basis. During routine maintenance patching, lifecycle operations are disabled. This may lead to a situation where the service instance can't be started or stopped for several hours while the patching cycle completes.
  • You can't stop or start an instance if patching is in progress.

Stop an Oracle Integration instance

When you initiate a stop request, the instance goes into a pausing state. During the pausing state, no new integrations or processes are started. In-flight integrations and processes continue until they complete or reach a checkpoint. When the integrations and processes are no longer running, the instance goes into a completely paused state. While the instance is in this state, Oracle Integration design time, settings, and monitoring features are unavailable.

Stopping an Oracle Integration instance causes the following to occur:
  • For Oracle Integration users, billing is paused for the duration that the instance is paused.
  • For Oracle Integration for SaaS users, billing is not impacted by pausing an instance.
  • Integration endpoints are paused.
  • Process instances are paused.
  • Runtime is paused.
  • Scheduled integrations don't execute.
  • Database purging continues to run.
  • REST APIs are unavailable for use. If you attempt to use the APIs while your instance is in a paused state, you receive a 409 error.
  • Design time is not available for use. If you access the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Console, it displays a page indicating the stopped state and asks you to start the instance for the console to become available.

To stop an Oracle Integration instance:

  1. In the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Console, open the navigation menu and click Developer Services, then, under Application Integration, click Integration.
  2. You can stop an instance from one of two places:
    • To stop an instance from the Integration instances page (the list of Oracle Integration), on the far right of the instance you want to stop, click Task menu, and select Stop.
    • To stop an instance from the Integration instance details page (while viewing an individual instance), open the instance you want to stop. Click More Actions, and select Stop.

    Note:

    You can't stop an instance when maintenance and security patching are in progress.
  3. When prompted to confirm your selection, click Stop.

    The instance state changes to Updating during the pausing process. When complete, the state changes to Inactive.

Start an Oracle Integration instance

  1. In the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Console, open the navigation menu and click Developer Services, then, under Application Integration, click Integration.
  2. You can start an instance from one of two places:
    • To start an instance from the Integration instances page (the list of Oracle Integration), on the far right of the instance you want to start, click Task menu, and select Start.
    • To start an instance from the Integration instance details page (while viewing an individual instance), open the instance you want to start. Click More Actions, and select Start.
  3. When prompted to confirm your selection, click Start.

    Note:

    You can't start an instance when maintenance and security patching are in progress.

    The instance state changes to Updating during the resumption. When complete, the state changes to Active.

Note:

You can also use the REST APIs to stop or start an instance. See Oracle Integration API.