How to determine amount of RAM on a remote computer

MarcLister · 11 Sep 2008 at 17:11

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.

Moredhel · 11 Sep 2008 at 17:29

You could use WMI through SNMP and get it that way, no third party software needed.

mk17 · 11 Sep 2008 at 17:33

There are some performance counters in PerfMon which will let you see available memory, committed, etc. on networked machines.

Its not the perfect solution, but might help. Failing that, you might be able to flash a quick WMI program together? <edit>beaten</edit>

MarcLister · 11 Sep 2008 at 17:36

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.

mk17 · 11 Sep 2008 at 20:12

nice. for what its worth you can download VS Express editions free from msdn.

MarcLister · 11 Sep 2008 at 20:18

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

Mr Blonde · 12 Sep 2008 at 01:01

I don't know if it's part of Vista but for XP and prior OS's can't you just use the built in MSinfo32?
(Start, Programs, Accessories, System Tools, System Information)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308549

MarcLister · 12 Sep 2008 at 07:34

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

marc2003 · 12 Sep 2008 at 08:20

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

goto the view menu and select remote computer.

matja · 12 Sep 2008 at 10:43

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

Code:

( 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

MarcLister · 12 Sep 2008 at 16:49

marc2003 said:
goto the view menu and select remote computer.

Might try that.

Got PsInfo working apart from the ones turned off.

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

Code:

( 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!

Eriedor · 13 Sep 2008 at 12:57

MarcLister said:
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.

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.

MarcLister · 13 Sep 2008 at 16:08

Eriedor said:
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?

Dave M · 13 Sep 2008 at 16:53

systeminfo?