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by bill cassada

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I've got a need to track how much memory is installed in about 70 systems on my part of the domain WITHOUT having to visit each and without using SMS. Does anyone know of a utility I can use at the admin level to discover each workstation's reported/installed memory? Is there something in the resource kit I can use for this?? We're all using NT4 SP5 and TCP/IP.

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by pete_may

There's a free set of command line utilities at http://user.mc.net/~jlh/nttools/index.htm which includes a utility for checking the amount of memory in a system and how much is used. I'm not sure if you can use this to look at other machines but running a remote command prompt or combining this with another utility is a possibility. I'd be interested in how you get on with this.
Peter

by bill cassada

This is a great set of utilities but lacking the ability to execute the memcheck on a remote machine sux for my situation. Thanks for pointing these out, though!! I downloaded them and the manual.

by natecasp

Yes, I know of a solution to your problem but the only software I know of is not free. The software is called Express Software Manager and it does complete software and hardware inventory of all PCs on your network. It also meters the software and records the usage of each application metered. The maker of the software is ExpressMetrix (formerly WRQ) they just split off from WRQ about a month ago. You can go to their website to find out more. www.expressmetrix.com

by bill cassada

Thanks, but the prob here is we are going to have SMS up shortly, however in the meantime I need to know the memory that is installed at each workstation. Good answer, though, just not what I need at the moment.

by allen610

Hey bill, I done the same thing! What I did was ran a mem command in their login script and had it echo the results to a file on their personal drive. That way each user ends up with something like a mem.txt in their personal drive and all you have to do is go there and open it up. The command would be as followes...

mem >y:\mem.txt

The above is saying that y:\ is their personal home directory. You can also use this to check disk space etc etc.

by bill cassada

I think this is the option I will go with. Seems to me that somehow someone left something out of the admin tools and resource kits. Clearly this isn't something one would do everyday, but it sure is helpful when planning for new apps and other things. Thanks for the tip!!

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