Create Inventory

Specify Oracle inventory information. When you have completed your selections, click Next.

Note: Ensure that the Oracle inventory path contains only ASCII characters. At the time of this release, the use of non-ASCII characters for an Oracle inventory is not supported. Oracle does not recommend you to place the inventory directory in a shared location.

The full path to directory where the Installer should place inventory information (the Oracle inventory directory)
The name of the UNIX group that should own the Oracle inventory directory (the Oracle inventory group)

See the following sections for more information about the values that you must specify.

Oracle Inventory Directory

The Oracle Inventory directory (oraInventory) is the central inventory location for all Oracle software installed on a server. Specify the full path to the Oracle Inventory directory (also called the oraInventory directory). The installer uses this directory to store information about all of the Oracle products installed on this system.

Note: The installer creates the oraInventory directory you specify only if it does not exist. Ensure that you do not place the Oracle Inventory directory under Oracle base or Oracle home.

Use the following Optimal Flexible Architecture (OFA) guidelines when choosing the directory:

The first time you install Oracle software on your computer, the Oracle Universal Installer provides an oraInventory directory in the format u[01-99]/app, such as /u01/app. If the user running the installation has write permissions on the oraInventory file, then the installer creates an Oracle Inventory directory in the path /u[01-99]/app/oraInventory. For example:
```
/u01/app/oraInventory
```
By default, the Oracle Inventory directory is not installed under the Oracle base directory. This is because all Oracle software installations share a common Oracle Inventory, so there is only one Oracle Inventory for all users. Each user that performs a software installation can use a separate Oracle base directory.
If you provide an Oracle base path when prompted during installation, or if you have set the environment variable ORACLE_BASE for the user performing the installation, then the installer suggests the following default path:
```
ORACLE_BASE/../oraInventory
```
If you neither enter a path nor set ORACLE_BASE, then the Oracle Universal Installer places the Oracle Inventory directory in the user's home directory. For example:
```
HOME/oraInventory
```
In this example, HOME is the login home directory of the user that started the Installer. Unless you are installing the software in a subdirectory of the home directory, Oracle recommends that you change this value to specify the previously recommended value.

Oracle Inventory Group

Select the operating system group whose members are granted privileges to write to the Oracle Inventory directory.By default, the Oracle installation owner user account's primary group is designated as the Oracle Inventory group. All Oracle software installation owner user accounts should have this group as their primary group.Only users that are members of this group can update, install, or remove oracle Software using Oracle Universal Installer. In code examples, Oracle documentation refers to this group as the oinstall group.