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$ORACLE_HOME/inventory directory is missing

2662498Oct 2 2014 — edited Oct 3 2014

Hello,

We are using oracle software standard edition of 11.2.0.3 version for one of our production server.

We have 3 physical classical standby in our env.

We noticed "$ORACLE_HOME/inventory" is missing from OH on primary site. Can you tell me what could be the impact of this missing local inventory directory.

As I know we can correct global inventory but not sure about local one.

In standby site we have no issue with binaries and inventory directory is present. Is it a better idea to copy binaries from Standby to Primary?

Just for your information, we are going apply SPU (CPU) on Primary OH whereas we have already applied SPU on all standby's.

Below is the error we are getting -

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$ ./opatch version
OPatch Version: 11.2.0.3.6

OPatch succeeded.

$ ./opatch lsinventory
Oracle Interim Patch Installer version 11.2.0.3.6
Copyright (c) 2013, Oracle Corporation.  All rights reserved.


Oracle Home            : /db01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0
Oracle Home Inventory  : n/a
OPatch version         : 11.2.0.3.6
Product information    : n/a
Log file location      : /db01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/cfgtoollogs/opatch/opatch2014-10-02_11-38-02AM_1.log

Patch history file: /db01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/cfgtoollogs/opatch/opatch_history.txt

LsInventorySession failed:
OPatch finds invalid inventory. The patch storage directory '/db01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/.patch_storage' is present but Standalone Inventory '/db01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/sainventory' is not present.

OPatch failed with error code 73

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One more thing i forgot to mention, opatch is working with default opatch utility -

./opatch lsinventory
Invoking OPatch 11.2.0.1.7

Oracle Interim Patch Installer version 11.2.0.1.7
Copyright (c) 2011, Oracle Corporation.  All rights reserved.


Oracle Home       : /db01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0
Central Inventory : /db01/app/oracle/oraInventory
   from           : /var/opt/oracle/oraInst.loc
OPatch version    : 11.2.0.1.7
OUI version       : 11.2.0.3.0
Log file location : /db01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/cfgtoollogs/opatch/opatch2014-10-02_12-16-39PM.log

Lsinventory Output file location : /db01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/cfgtoollogs/opatch/lsinv/lsinventory2014-10-02_12-16-39PM.txt

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There are no Interim patches installed in this Oracle Home.


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Thanks for your suggestion.

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