How to Share Named Credentials Using a Role in OEM

In your environment, there are hundreds or even thousands of targets managed by OEM, and a doze or even hundreds of OEM administrators and users. In this case, effectively and securely managing Named Credentials ( NC ) is a challenging job. Usually, every OEM administrator or user creates and manages their own Named Credentials ( NC ). So many duplicate copies of Named Credentials ( NC ) are kept, it brings difficulties for updating them if any targets credentials changed.

This post demonstrates how to share a Named Credentials ( NC ) with many administrators and users in any size of OEM environment by using a role. Same as an Oracle database role, which can be granted to a role or a user.