Physical Memory

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I need to extract the amount of physical memory on my servers and have not been able to figure this out. I noted an article dated 2001 indicating it was not possible. Hopefully, things have changed in the past 7 years and this is not possible. I also have a need to extract the number of ligical (and physical) CPUS installed if possible.

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Re: Physical Memory

WMI has a query called Computer System that has a property TotalPhysicalMemory, and one called NumberofProcessors that will give you this information.

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Re: Physical Memory

Thanks for the information. However, I was looking for a way to extract from the registry as we do not have WMI on all of our systems.

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If you can find a reliable location in the registry, you should be able to create a registry template in Exporter Pro to export from that key.

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This is what I am trying to do basically. I have about 1500 pcs that I am trying to get the specs from in a export or a report like this. What are the steps to perform this action?

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Actually it looks like there isn't any location in the registry for this info.

The only place in the registry has a complex number in it that requires a lot of calculations to get the data.

We would have no other option besides WMI for this data.

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how would you use WMI to obtain this informaiton.

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Select the computers in Hyena's right-hand window, right-click and choose WMI->Execute Query. Choose Computer System and click Execute Query.

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I ran the WMI report and it only gave me a report of about 1/3 of the items that we have in the org. What would be the primary reason that it would not population the export with a listing of all the pcs. They were all imaged off the same image.

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What exact steps did you take? Did you get any errors?

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I used the steps layed out in your previous post. I received repeated errors that it was not getting a response from the RPC service.

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That is a communication error of some sort. Some things that can cause it:

Computer is offline
Name resolution issues
Windows Firewall turned on a blocking RPC
Etc.