How to avoid the overhead of running software inventory on large disks

The hidden file Skpswi.dat which is normally stored in the ccmcache folder, can also be placed on the root folder of each disk drive that you want to exclude from the software inventory.

The software inventory doesn´t scan these drives until the Skpswi.dat file is removed. As another possibility the file Skpswi.dat can also be placed in certain folders that are on the top of the path of a software inventory collection rule. 

For example:

If there is a rule to inventory "Program Files" and the file Skpswi.dat is stored in the root of this folder then the entire folder tree will be skipped on the SMS clients.

If the file Skpswi.dat is removed, the folder will be scanned again.