Opatch lsinventory shows 4 products installed 9i and 10g.

Question

Hi,
I have upgraded 9i to 10g in separate dir.
but when i   do opatch lsinventory it shows
Lsinventory Output file location : /oracle/DA1/102_64/cfgtoollogs/opatch/lsinv/lsinventory2008-06-30_17-42-15PM.txt
Installed Top-level Products (4):
Oracle Client                                                        10.2.0.1.0
Oracle Database 10g                                                  10.2.0.1.0
Oracle Database 10g Release 2 Patch Set 1                            10.2.0.2.0
Oracle9i Database                                                     9.2.0.1.0
There are 4 products installed in this Oracle Home.
please advise.
Anu

Answer 1

Hello Anu,
this information comes from the "Global Inventory".
Metalinknote #360079.1 describes this:
Global Inventory
The Global Inventory is the part of the XML inventory that contains the high level list of all oracle products installed on a machine. There should therefore be only one per machine. Its location is defined by the content of oraInst.loc.
The Global Inventory records the physical location of Oracle products installed on the machine, such as ORACLE_HOMES (RDBMS and IAS) or JRE. It does not have any information about the detail of patches applied to each ORACLE_HOMEs.
The Global Inventory gets updated every time you install or de-install an ORACLE_HOME on the machine, be it through OUI Installer, Rapid Install, or Rapid Clone.
Note: If you need to delete an ORACLE_HOME, you should always do it through the OUI de-installer in order to keep the Global Inventory synchronized.
Regards
Stefan