Oracle inventory directory Concept

Oracle inventory directory2.7.2 Oracle inventory directory

The Oracle inventory directory (Orainventory) Stores an inventory of all software installed on the system.It is required by, and shared by, all Oracle software installations on a single system. The first time you install Oracle
Software on a system, Oracle universal installer prompts you to specify the path to this directory. Then Oracle recommends that you choose the following path:

Oracle_base/orainventory

Oracle universal installer creates the directory that you specify and sets the correct owner, group, and permissions for it. You do not need to create it.

Note:

All Oracle software installations rely on this directory. Ensure that you back it up regularly.

Do not delete this directory unless you have completely removed all Oracle software from the system.

After installing oracle db for the first time, if you want to add new components to Oracle, you need to run runinstaller again. When runinstaller is run for the second time, runinstaller is specified through orainst. Loc

Inventory_loc =/u01/APP/Oracle/
Inst_group = oinstall

To determine the path of Oracle inventory directory. By default, runinstaller goes to/etc/orainst. loc. If you do not want to use the default one, you can use the following parameters:

./Runinstaller-invptrloc/u01/APP/Oracle/installfile/orainst. Loc