Oracle software patching using opatch stanford university. Rac, dataguard, golden gate,ebs suit, backups and restoration, shell scripts. The path for this file is provided while installing oracle home. This takes precedence over the environment variable. How to change move oracle inventory location to another.
Update opatch of weblogic in order to patch weblogic server 12. Using the opatch lsinventory command to verify the patches. Opatch failed to locate the central inventory error code. The global inventory location will be determined by file orainst. When i try to run opatch lsinventory command again.
Compare two files generated by the opatch lsinventory xml command. Opatch failed to locate central inventory the oracle dba. Now that we understand how to pull the opatch information from the command line, the point of this post is to show that we can now pull the opatch information from the database itself. If this entry does not point to right location, you will have 2 options to fix the situation. This chapter provides actual output of the opatch lsinventory detail command from an oracle forms and reports 11 g release 2 11. With the release of oracle database 12c, oracle has created a dbms function to allow us access to the opatch information from within the database. Far sync 6 sql 6 datapump 5 errors 5 managment 5 12c 4 active data guard 4 alert. Oraclehomeinventorycreateinventoryobj gets a null oiicstandardinventorysession object.
This chapter provides information on using opatch to apply patches. Applying opatch on single instance database deveshdba. Solution for opatch could not find oui based inventory in. The following example shows sample output of the lsinventory command, which indicates that a. We need to check the opatch inventory location that we are pointing to correct inventory if we are correct inventory then we need to attach the oracle home with inventory. Hi when i am running opatch lsinventory command getting following error. For now we have two options to fix since opatch is looking at orainst. Inventory load failed opatch cannot load inventory for the given oracle home. Opatch failed with error code 73, the central inventory is.
From 10g onwards, you can reverse engineer and recreate your oracle inventory if it gets corrupted or accidentally deleted, thereby avoiding time consuming reinstallation of oracle sw or any other unsupported tricks. Oracle opatch failed with error code 73 helioss blog. The following example applies patches 1, 2, and 3 that are under the directory. First of all check opatch output and look at location of oracle inventory pointer entry. To verify what patches have been applied to an oracle home, or to find out additional information about the oracle home, use the opatch lsinventory command. The opatch utility is located in the opatch directory. Opatch is a set of perl scripts and java classes which allow the application and rolling back of interim oneoff patches currently for. K21 technologies 128 uxbridge road, hatchend, london, ha5 4ds us.
Changing oracle central inventory location on linux. Opatch failed to locate central inventory may 19, 2015 may 19, 2015 philipoconduin the following problem was caused by our recent migration, the inventory was pointing to a home that was no longer on the server. Please note if you multiple global inventory on machine check all orainventory directories. Steps to recreate lostcorrupted orainventory in oracle. Opatch failed with error code 73, the central inventory is corrupted. If you ever get this error while running opatch, dont think that it is end of the world and you have to reinstall oracle. The opatch utility is a tool that allows the application and rollback of interim patches to oracle products.
The following example applies all patches under the directory. I face opatch failed with error code 73 error on my ebusiness suite r12. Posted by mufalani march 4, 2020 march 4, 2020 posted in uncategorized today, i was required to change oracle central inventory location for a customer, before to cause a mess on their environment, first i found on mosc note 299260. In many cases, opatch does not understand the oracle home,so we identified the reason why opatch command is not identified.
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