10.3 Configuring the Inventory Service

The Collector Priority of the Inventory Service should be a matter of interest only in debugging situations; however, the default value is set to Normal. For performance reasons, you should set it to Low. The setting is configured in Configuration > Inventory > Inventory in the last option at the bottom of the page.

Figure 10-4 Configuration > Inventory > Advanced > Collector Priority

In addition, some directories must be excluded from the inventory scan because they contain content that is not of interest from an inventory perspective:

  • /proc

  • /sys

  • /tmp

  • /dev

  • /media

  • /mnt

These settings can be configured on the same page as the Collector Priority, under the Software Files option:

Figure 10-5 Inventory > Inventory > Software Files