1. Administering Oracle Blockchain Platform
  2. Manage Oracle Blockchain Platform
  3. Manage Your Instance Lifecycle Operations

Manage Your Instance Lifecycle Operations

Once you've provisioned your instance, you can manage it in Blockchain Platform Manager.

View Instance Details

Clicking on your instance name in Blockchain Platform Manager opens the Instances tab displaying details about the instance.

The Instance Details page lists information such as the health of the instance, namespace and domain name.

You can manage the instance from the Actions menu, or launch the Oracle Blockchain Platform Service Console to manage your blockchain network.

View Instance Activity

The Activity pages shows the status of operations that have been performed on your instances.

To see the activity of an instance, select your instance name and on the Instances page click Activity.

This tab lists any operations that have been performed on your instance such as starting, stopping, and updating, as well as whether or not it was successful, the time of the operation, and the user ID who initiated the operation.

You can see and filter the activity of all instances managed by Blockchain Platform Manager on the Activities page. The Activities page can be used to see the history of operations performed on any instances, including deleted instances. These activities can be filtered by different search criteria such as instance name, operation types, and date range.

Start or Stop an Instance

You can start or stop an instance in the Blockchain Platform Manager.

To start or stop an instance:
  1. In Blockchain Platform Manager, find your instance and select the menu beside it.
  2. Select Start or Stop. You'll be prompted to confirm your selection.

Delete an Instance

You can delete your instance in Blockchain Platform Manager.

To delete your instance:
  1. Open Blockchain Platform Manager and find your instance.
  2. From the menu beside your instance, select Terminate.
  3. You'll be prompted to confirm your action. Click Confirm.

Scale an Instance In or Out

You can scale an instance in or out in Blockchain Platform Manager.

Scale Out

You can scale out your instance by increasing replicas or creating peers or orderers:

  1. In Blockchain Platform Manager open the Actions menu in the instance details page and click Scale Out.
  2. You can scale out using any of these methods:
    • New Replicas: adds additional nodes; REST proxy or CA.
    • New Peers: adds one additional peer at a time.
    • New Orderers: adds additional orderers.

Scale In

You can scale in your instance by deleting peers.

Before scaling in an instance, you must transfer all this peer's responsibilities to other running peers, and then remove all the responsibilities this peer has.
  • Check all other peers' gossip bootstrap address lists, remove the peer address, and add another running peer's address if needed. After the peer configuration change, restart the peer.
  • Check all channels' anchor peer lists, remove the peer from the anchor peer lists, and add another running peer to the anchor peer list if needed.
  • If a channel or chaincode is only joined or installed on this peer, consider using another running peer to join the same channel and install the same chaincode.
  1. In Blockchain Platform Manager open the Actions menu in the instance details page and click Scale In.
  2. Select the peer that you want to delete.