Attach a Oracle Home in Oracle Inventory on Server

Error:

When running opatch lsinventory getting below error

Oracle Home       : /u01/oracle/product/11.2.0

Central Inventory : /home/oracle/oraInventory

   from           : /u01/oracle/product/11.2.0/oraInst.loc

OPatch version    : 11.2.0.3.6

OUI version       : 11.2.0.4.0

Log file location : /u01/oracle/product/11.2.0/cfgtoollogs/opatch/opatch2017-09-12_15-30-47PM_1.log

Inventory load failed... OPatch cannot load inventory for the given Oracle Home.

Possible causes are:

   Oracle Home dir. path does not exist in Central Inventory

   Oracle Home is a symbolic link

   Oracle Home inventory is corrupted

LsInventorySession failed: OracleHomeInventory gets null oracleHomeInfo

OPatch failed with error code 73

Cause:

Checking the inventory.xml file the respective oracle home was not found.

Solution:

To fix this, add the new OH to your inventory. From your OH that is missing, do the following:

cd $ORACLE_HOME/oui/bin

./runInstaller -invPtrLoc /d43/oracle/test/11.2.0/oraInst.loc -attachHome ORACLE_HOME=/d43/oracle/test/11.2.0 ORACLE_HOME_NAME="Ora11gHome_TEST"

Starting Oracle Universal Installer...

Checking swap space: must be greater than 500 MB.   Actual 8191 MB    Passed

The inventory pointer is located at /u01/oracle/product/11.2.0/oraInst.loc

'AttachHome' was successful.

Now run Opatch again