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What Is OraInventory

The oraInventory stores information about Oracle software, Java Runtime environments, and other products installed on a machine. It maintains a record of all Oracle homes and their contents. Starting with Oracle Universal Installer version 2.X, the inventory changed from a binary format to XML. The XML inventory contains a global inventory that lists all Oracle products installed, and local inventories for each Oracle home with details of patches. It is possible to have multiple global inventories but only one should be pointed to by the oraInst.loc file at a time. If the global inventory becomes corrupted, it can be recreated using the Universal Installer. The inventory location can also be moved by editing the oraInst.loc file to point

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What Is OraInventory

The oraInventory stores information about Oracle software, Java Runtime environments, and other products installed on a machine. It maintains a record of all Oracle homes and their contents. Starting with Oracle Universal Installer version 2.X, the inventory changed from a binary format to XML. The XML inventory contains a global inventory that lists all Oracle products installed, and local inventories for each Oracle home with details of patches. It is possible to have multiple global inventories but only one should be pointed to by the oraInst.loc file at a time. If the global inventory becomes corrupted, it can be recreated using the Universal Installer. The inventory location can also be moved by editing the oraInst.loc file to point

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What is oraInventory

What is oraInventory
What is oraInventory
What is oraInventory
The Orainventory is the location for the OUI's Book keeping
The inventory stores information about.
All the Oracle software products installed on all ORACLE_HOMES on a machine
Other non-oracle products such as Java Runtime env's (JRE)
Binary OraInventory
Before OUI 2.X (or 11.5.7 or earlier)the inventory was binary, the binary orainvenory maintains in inventory in binary format
XML Inventory
Starting from OUI 2.X and 11.5.8 information in the inventory is stored in the Extensible Markup Language (XML) format.
The XML format allows easier diagnostic of the problem and faster loading of data.
XML inventory is divided into 2 components.
1. Global Inventory
Global Inventory holds information about Oracle Products on a Machine, The inventory contains the high level list of all oracle products installed on a
machine such as ORACLE_HOMES or JRE.
It doesn't have any information about the details of patches applied on each ORACLE_HOMES.
There should be only one per machine. Its locations is defined in the oraInst.loc in /etc (on Linux) or /var/opt/oracle (solaris).
1. Local Inventory
There is one Local inventory per ORACLE_HOME.
Inventory inside each Oracle Home is called as local Inventory or ORACLE_HOME Inventory. This Inventory holds information to that ORACLE_HOME
only.
Can I have multiple Global Inventories on a machine?
Can you have multiple global Inventory and answer is YES you can have multiple global Inventory but if your upgrading or applying patch then change
Inventory Pointer oraInst.loc to respective location.
If you are following single global Inventory and if you wish to uninstall any software then remove it from Global Inventory as well.
What to do if my Global Inventory is corrupted?
If your global Inventory is corrupted, you can recreate global Inventory on machine using Universal Installer and attach already Installed oracle home
by option
-attachHome
./runInstaller -silent -attachHome -invPtrLoc $location_to_oraInst.loc ORACLE_HOME=Oracle_Home_Location
ORACLE_HOME_NAME=Oracle_Home_Name CLUSTER_NODES={}
Do I need to worry about oraInventory during oracle Apps 11i cloning ?
No, Rapid Clone will update both Global & Local Inventory with required information, you don't have to worry about Inventory during Oracle Apps 11i
cloning.
How to Move oraInventory from one location to other?
Find the current location of the central inventory (Normally $ORACLE_BASE/oraInventory):
Open the oraInst.loc file in /etc and check the value of inventory_loc
cat /etc/oraInst.loc
inventory_loc=/u01/app/oracle/oraInventory
inst_group=oinstall
Remark: The oraInst.loc file is simply a pointer to the location of the central inventory (oraInventory)
Copy the oraInventory directory to the destination directory
cp -Rp /u01/app/oracle/oraInventory /u02/app/oracle/oraInventory
Edit the oraInst.loc file to point to the new location
vi /etc/oraInst.loc
inventory_loc=/u02/app/oracle/oraInventory
inst_group=dba

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