How to determine amount of RAM on a remote computer

[MarcLister]

Doing some volunteering at a local school I worked at before departing for Uni. Working with the IT techs. The head IT tech wanted to know how to find out how much RAM was on a remote computer on the school network without physically going to that PC.

I googled and found a prog but I don't think he liked the look of it. Anyone know of any programs that will do this or perhaps a batch script?

Ta muchly.

 

[MarcLister]

Clever Messers Moredhel and mk17. I found some WMI stuff on MSDN. Considering I don't really program and I don't think the school has Visual Studio how could I put this together?

Edit: Have found PsInfo from Sysinternals. Looks like it does what I need.

 

[MarcLister]

Yes I can. But I'd have to write some stuff and I don't like programming.

 

[MarcLister]

I need to be able to get information on remote computers not the local one.

 

[MarcLister]

goto the view menu and select remote computer.

Might try that. Got PsInfo working apart from the ones turned off.

Simply install Linux on all the machines and setup ssh public keys, then you can just do :

( for machine in machine{0,1,2,3,etc} ; do
echo $machine has $(ssh $machine grep MemTotal /proc/meminfo) ;
done ) > machine-memory-sizes.txt

...and have a lovely text file with all the machine names and corresponding memory sizes.

Sorry

Pfft!

 

[MarcLister]

For future info all you need to do is write the vbscript that uses wmi in notepad an save as .vbs. Double click to run it.

The vbscript from the MSDN site?