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Recreate or A Inventory
Recreate or A Inventory
PURPOSE
This document explains the steps to recreate the Global Inventory and
reregister all the ORACLE_HOMEs (8i or 9i and iAS) in case it is
missing or
corrupted.
This Note, applies only for Oracle Applications 11i environments created
with the Rapid Installer (RapidWiz) with RDBMS Versions 8i or 9i.
SCOPE & APPLICATION
System Administrators, Applications DBAs, Oracle Support
How to Recreate the Global oraInventory
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The file oraInst.loc, defines the location of the Global Inventory.
This file is located under /etc for Linux and AIX and /var/opt/oracle on
Solaris,
HPUX and Tru64.
Every $ORACLE_HOME must be registered on the Global Inventory.
The Global Inventory is pointer to each Local Inventory located under
$ORACLE_HOME/inventory for every ORACLE_HOME (8i or 9i and iAS).
The Local Inventories contain the local versions installed on that
$ORACLE_HOME.
This procedure will only work if the Local Inventory for each
ORACLE_HOME is
present and is not corrupted.
Make sure the directory $ORACLE_HOME/inventory under each RDBMS (8i or
9i) or
iAS $ORACLE_HOME exists and it is not empty.
Note:
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If the Local Inventory is missing or corrupted, then a valid workaround
is to
ReInstall the Techstack by using 'rapidwiz techstack'.
That procedure will create a a New $ORACLE_HOME (9i or iAS) containing a
valid
Local Inventory.
For detailed steps on that procedure, refer to the following Metalink
notes:
Note 289786.1 : 11.5.10 Oracle applications Installation Manual' (Chapter
5, Page 51) and
Note 146468.1 : Installing Oracle9i Application Server 1.0.2.2.2 with
Oracle Applications
1. Verify the oraInst.loc file.
Be sure the inventory where oraInst.loc points to, is the
oraInventory for
the environment that you need to recreate the Global Inventory.
For Example :
inventory_loc=/oraInventory
Note:
If the oraInst.loc does not exist, create the text file with the
above entry.
This file must exist to be able to register the ORACLE_HOMEs
correctly.
2. Rename the corrupted Global oraInventory with a different Name
Go to the directory where the oraInst.loc is pointing to.
Rename the directory with a different name.
For Example :
cd /
mv oraInventory oraInventory.ori
3. Download Patch 5035661 (OUI 2.2) (Or Later) from Metalink.
Note:
Do not follow the readme.txt file for this patch.
Just follow the instructions on this Note.
4. Recreate the Global oraInventory on ALL the ORACLE_HOMEs as follows :
4.1) iAS ORACLE_HOME :
a. Unzip the patch into the <iAS ORACLE_HOME> directory
ie: unzip od <iAS ORACLE_HOME> p5035661_11i_LINUX.zip
b. Source the Apps environment file (<APPL_TOP>/APPSORA.env).
If the environment file is not available, please make sure
the environment variable 'APPL_TOP' is set.
c. Change directory to the <iAS ORACLE_HOME>/appsoui/setup
d. Execute the perl script OUIsetup.pl:
perl OUIsetup.pl
This command, will create a new oraInventory (on the location
where
the oraInst.loc is pointing to) and will add one entry on the file
oraInventory/ContentsXML/inventory.xml for the iAS ORACLE_HOME
just registered.
e. Give all the Permissions to the new oraInventory create in order
to
prevent permission problems that might occur during the
registration
of the the next ORACLE_HOME (ie: 8i or 9i).
For Example :
cd /
chmod R 777 oraInventory
4.2) RDBMS ORACLE_HOME (8i or 9i)
a. Unzip the patch into the <RDBMS ORACLE_HOME> directory
ie: unzip od <RDBMS ORACLE_HOME> p5035661_11i_LINUX.zip
b. Source the DB environment file (<RDBMS
ORACLE_HOME>/<sid>_<hostname>.env)
If the environment file is not available, please make sure
the environment variable 'ORACLE_SID' is set.
c. Change directory to the <RDBMS ORACLE_HOME>/appsoui/setup
d. Execute the perl script OUIsetup.pl:
perl OUIsetup.pl
This command, will use the same oraInventory created on Step 4.1,
and
will add another entry on the file
oraInventory/ContentsXML/inventory.xml
for the RDBMS (8i or 9i) ORACLE_HOME just registered.
5. Verify oraInventory registration :
Set the DISPLAY correctly
Go to the directory $ORACLE_HOME/appsoui/oui/install
Execute the command : runInstaller.sh
Click on the button 'Installed Products'
If you are able to see all the ORACLE_HOMEs and the products
installed
on each one, then the Registration was succesfull.
REFERENCES
Note 216664.1 : FAQ: Cloning Oracle Applications Release 11i (Questions 24
to 31)