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Database Inventory: Concepts and
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Asad Hasan
Principal Software Engineer
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Database Inventory: Concepts and
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Asad Hasan
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Objectives
Understanding Oracle Database
Inventory
Importance of Database Inventory
Knowledge of Common Problems
with Inventory
Agenda
Overview Database Inventory
Central Inventory and Local Inventory
Inventory Pointer used by OUI and OPatch
Layout of Oracle Inventory
Steps To Recreate Central Inventory
Troubleshooting and known issues

Overview of Oracle Inventory
Collection of information representing the software installed.
Provided the Oracle Product is Installed using OUI (Oracle Universal
Installer)

OUI Oracles Installer Application

WINDOWS setup.exe
UNIX runInstaller
Structure of Inventory
Central
Inventory
Pointer File
(oraInst.loc)
Central
Inventory
(oraInventory)
Oracle Home 1
Oracle Home 3
Inventory
Oracle Home 2
Each system has:
One Central Inventory
N Oracle Home(Local) Inventories

Default Location Inventory Pointer
Solaris/HP-UX /var/opt/oracle/oraInst.loc
Linux/AIX : /etc/oraInst.loc

On Windows : registry HKLM\Software\oracle\inst_loc

cat oraInst.loc
inventory_loc=/u01/app/oraInventory
inst_group=oinstall
Inst_loc C:\Program Files\Oracle\Inventory
Central Inventory
Inventory having information of Oracle Homes installed in a machine.

Contains
Inventory File
Logs Directory

Updated by install or de-install of a ORACLE_HOME.

How Does OUI Decide oraInventory Location ?
OUI Set Up Central Inventory
ORACLE_BASE
$ORACLE_BASE/../oraInventory
/u01/app/oraInventory
Set
Not Set
No /home/oracle/oraInv
entory
If it is not first time OUI refers /etc/oraInst.loc
OFA -Complaint
Yes
/u[01-09]/app/oraInventory
Inventory File(inventory.xml)
Located in :
<centralinventorylocation>/ContentsXML/inventory.xml
It Lists Oracle_Home with following attributes:

HOME IDX="1 LOC="/u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/dbhome_1"
NAME="OraDb11g_home1

HOME NAME=grid11g" LOC="/grid11g" IDX=2" CRS="true"
NODE NAME="rac1" NODE NAME="rac2"

Central Inventory Logs Directory

Contains all installation logs for that node:
<central inventory location>/logs

installActions<YYYY-MM-DD_HH-MM-SS{AM/PM}>.log
oraInstall<YYYY-MM-DD_HH-MM-SS{AM/PM}>.err
oraInstall<YYYY-MM-DD_HH-MM-SS{AM/PM}>.out

Location Of Logs For OPatch And OUI (Doc ID 403212.1)

Inventory on Windows
In Windows 64 bit machine, there can be two inventories:

1) For all the oracle software installed using 64-bit DB software .
"c:\Program Files\Oracle\Inventory"

2) For the 32-bit oracle softwares, eg: 32-bit db client s/w this exists at:
"c:\Program Files (x86)\Oracle\Inventory"

Cont..
The two inventories are maintained independently
64-bit oracle software operate on 64 bit inventory
32-bit oracle software operate on 32-bit inventory

Registry keys associated with these inventories:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ORACLE 64bit
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\ORACLE -32 bit

Inventory Corrections examples :

=> Attach Oracle_Home to Central Inventory :

=> Detach Oracle_Home from Central Inventory :

./runInstaller -silent -attachHome
ORACLE_HOME="<OracleHome-Directory>
ORACLE_HOME_NAME="<OracleHome-Name>
./runInstaller -silent -detachHome
ORACLE_HOME="<OracleHome-Directory>
ORACLE_HOME_NAME="<OracleHome-Name>
Steps To Recreate Central
Inventory(oraInventory) In RDBMS Homes
STEP1: Locating the central inventory
STEP2: Remove the Central inventory (if it exists)
STEP3: Change the directory to the oui location.
STEP4: Attaching the Home

Demonstration
Local inventory

Each Oracle_Home has a local inventory within
$ORACLE_HOME/inventory

It contains the following files :
Components File
Home Properties File

Components File - comps.xml
It has records of all the components as well as patchsets or interim
patches installed in the Oracle home.

ORACLE_HOME/inventory/ContentsXML/comps.xml

After each opatch apply/napply OUI updates its comps.xml
with patch details.

opatch lsinventory
opatch lsinventory -detail

Sync Central and Local Inventory
Inventory.xml :

Comps.xml

INSTALL_TIME="2014.May.01 10:59:29 GMT
INST_TYPE NAME="EE" NAME_ID="EE" DESC_ID="EE_DESC
LOC=" /u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/dbhome_1 " TYPE="O"
IDX="1"/>
INST_LOC="/u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/dbhome_1/oracle.server
HOME_IDX="1
Home Properties
Contains Platform details for a particular oracle_home
$ORACLE_HOME/inventory/ContentsXML/oraclehomeproperties.xml

Helps determine if the patch(32 or 64 bit) is applicable for platform

<GUID>1722428402#.1076931936
<ARU_ID>226
<ARU_ID_DESCRIPTION>Linux x86-64
<PROPERTY NAME="ARCHITECTURE" VAL="64"/>
Cont..
Set Oracle_Base

oraenv reads oraclehomeproperties.xml

<PROPERTY NAME="ORACLE_BASE" VAL="/u01/app/oracle"/>
Inventory Pointer Within Oracle_Home
How to identify where is Oracle_Home registered ?

cat $ORACLE_HOME/oraInst.loc

Overrides the Default Inventory Pointer .

inventory_loc=/u01/app/oraInventory
Layout of Oracle Inventory
Inventory Ptr
<oracle_home>/inventory/oneoff/inventory.xml
<InventoryLoc>/ContentsXML/comps.xml
<OH>/inventory/ContentsXML/comps.xml
<OH>/inventory/ContentsXML/oraclehomeproperties.xml
Get Inventory Pointer
Get Independent
Products
Get Oracle Homes
For each OH
Get Components
Get platform
Home GUID

<InventoryLoc>/ContentsXML/inventory.xml
For Opatch
Check Oracle XML Is Correct ?
We can use opatch utility to check health of specific XML file.

Error in XML File:

org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: <Line 12, Column 12>: XML-
20121: (Fatal Error) End tag does not match start tag
'HOME.at
oracle.xml.parser.v2.XMLError.flushErrorHandler(XMLError.ja
va:422)

%opatch util LoadXML -xmlInput
inventory_Loc/ContentsXML/inventory.xml
How To Identify Error In XML Files ?

<HOME NAME="OraDb11g_home1"
LOC="/u05/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/dbhome_1"
TYPE="O" IDX="1"/>

<HOME NAME="OraDb11g_home1"
LOC="/u05/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/dbhome_1"
TYPE="O" IDX="1">
(Fatal Error) End tag does not match
Significance of oraInst.loc using OUI and
OPATCH
Default OUI takes central Inventory from:
/var/opt/oracle/oraInst.loc or /etc/oraInst.loc
Opatch takes central Inventory from $OH/oraInst.loc

If oraInst.loc does not exist:
./runInstaller -invPtrLoc <path>/oraInst.loc
./opatch lsinventory -invPtrLoc <path>/oraInst.loc

oraInst.loc - Case Study
Case 1-New Install in a Clean Machine
Oracle_Home/oraInst.loc is created in the end of installation after
executing oraInstRoot.sh .
Oracle_Home/oraInst.loc Default inventory pointer file is same .
Case 2 Default Inventory Pointer Exists
Finds Inventory location from inventory pointer in default location .
The file under OH/oraInst.loc has contents similar to the default
inventory pointer file.
Non-Default Inventory Pointer Location
Case 3 New Install with -invPtrLoc <neworaInst.loc>

File under OH/oraInst.loc has contents similar <neworaInst.loc>

Different from the default inventory pointer.

To perform an operation on this home pass
-invPtrLoc <neworaInst.loc>

Inventory Backup
Highly Recommended before any Upgrade or Patch Operation.

Installs cannot be performed on the system due to inventory errors

Rebuilding the Oracle Home(Local) inventory is not possible

Central Inventory Backup
Oracle Home Backup
Demonstration
Automated Inventory Backup
Operations Update Central Inventory Operations Update Local Inventory
a) Install (New Home)
b) Deinstall ( Remove Home)
c) Clone
d) Add node
e) Attach home
a) Install (patchsets,upgrades)
b) Deinstall (components)
c) Add node

Backup the directory:
oraInventory/backup/
/time stamp/
Backup the directory:

$ORACLE_HOME/inventory//backup/tim
e stamp/
Multiple OraInventory Locations?

Consolidate Multiple Central Inventories into a Single Central Inventory.

Step1:Identify the Central Inventory Directory
Step2:Execute orainstroot.sh
Step3:Identify other Central inventories and Oracle home
Step4:Execute the following command :

->cd $ORACLE_HOME/oui/bin
->./runInstaller -silent -attachHome
ORACLE_HOME="<Oracle_Home_Location>"
ORACLE_HOME_NAME="<Oracle_Home_Name>"
Demonstration
Summary
Understanding of Central and
Local Inventory
Steps to Recreate Central Inventory
Purpose of oraInst.loc
Consolidation of oraInventory
What we covered today
Additional References
Document 564192.1 FAQs on Central Inventory
and Oracle Home Inventory (Local Inventory) in
Oracle RDBMS
Document 556834.1 Steps To Recreate Central
Inventory(oraInventory) In RDBMS Homes
Document 414600.1 Strategies for a Corrupted
Oracle Central Inventory
Document 453399.1 How To Check if
inventory.xml/comps.xml Or Any Oracle XML
File Is Correct?
Questions & Answers
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https://community.oracle.com/thread/3572317
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