Specify Inventory Directory and Credentials

Specify the following information then click Next:

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

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 directory you specify if it does not exist.

Use the following guidelines when choosing the directory:

Oracle recommends that you specify the following directory, where oracle_base is the full path of Oracle base directory that you created before starting the installation:
```
oracle_base/oraInventory
```
The Optimal Flexible Architecture (OFA) standard recommends that you use the format /mount_point/app/username when creating the Oracle base direcory, where mount_point is a mount point directory and username is the user name of the user that installs the software. For example:
```
/u01/app/oracle
```
If you set the ORACLE_BASE environment variable before starting the installation, the Installer suggests the following default path:
```
$ORACLE_BASE/oraInventory
```
Oracle recommends that you accept this default path.
If you did not set the ORACLE_BASE environment variable before starting the installation, the Installer suggests the following default path:
```
$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

Specify or select the name of the UNIX group that will own the Oracle Inventory directory.

The default group is the primary group of the UNIX user that started the Installer.

Any UNIX user that runs Oracle Universal Installer must have the group you specify as their primary group. Only UNIX users that are members of this group can update, install, or remove Oracle software. Oracle documentation uses the group name oinstall to identify this group.