Speeding up the Inventory Update Process

[apizz]

Trying to determine if there's anything we could be doing to shorten the total time it takes to update inventory without eliminating the collection of valuable data.

As one example, currently we've added a custom search path - /Users/ - for installed applications. Would it be more efficient to do something like:

~/Desktop/
~/Documents/
~/Downloads/

... or would this only get us the current user?

We do have some custom fonts that get installed, so we still want to collect this, although wish we could ONLY specify the /Library/Fonts/ folder instead of each user's ~/Library/Fonts/ folder as well ...

Thanks in advance!

[mm2270]

Not sure I can offer too much advice here. With all those items enabled, its no surprise your recons are a bit lengthy.
In our case, we do not collect fonts or plug-ins (both have a tendency to make the database a bit large) For plug-ins, we just created individual Extension Attributes that capture info on the few plug-ins we care about, like Flash Player, Silverlight and Java for example. This doesn't help with application plug-ins, like from Adobe CC for example, but can help with internet plug-ins at least.
We don't really care about fonts, so that's not enabled. I don't have any real advice there.

Applications - hmm. I'm assuming you want to collect any apps not in the main Applications folder. Not sure there's a good solution there. You can try adding more specific search paths to see if it helps, but its still going to add time to locate all apps in local home directories.