1. Essbase Independent Deployment
  2. Troubleshooting
  3. Specify Inventory Location

Specify Inventory Location

The Essbase installer attempts to detect the inventory location for Fusion Middleware.

If the oraInst.loc for Fusion Middleware isn't detected, you're prompted to provide the central inventory location in the Installation Inventory screen.


Installation Inventory screen with inventory location for Fusion Middleware

Some Oracle products may set a central inventory location in /etc. If you have a central inventory location in /etc, you may encounter an error during the installation.


Installation Location screen with error NGINST-64018: The Oracle Home is incompatible with the Central Inventory

If you encounter experience this error, you can explicitly specify the Fusion Middleware inventory location using the -invPtrLoc argument to the installer.

For example, launch the installer as follows:

java -jar essbase-21.1.0.0.0-linux64.jar -invPtrLoc /scratch/username/essbase21c/oracle_home/oraInst.loc