remotely check amount of RAM on a computer using command line

Question

How would I remotely check the amount of RAM on a computer using command line? (Windows XP and/or windows server 2003)

Solution 1

Requires XP or later system: wmic memphysical list full, also wmic memorychip list full might provide you with some info you are looking for.

Solution 2

If you have access to PowerShell (it only needs to be installed on a single workstation to run this from) you can do something like:

$computer = ComputerNameGoesHere
get-wmiobject Win32_ComputerSystem -computer $computer | 
select @{name="TotalPhysicalMemory(MB)";expression={($_.TotalPhysicalMemory/1mb)}}

You would need to either run the script as someone that can run WMI queries on remote machines (usually administrator) or work Get-Credential and -credential in there.

Solution 3

Here's a simple one:

run command line as administrative account (if in a domain)

SYSTEMINFO /S computername

There's all kinds of info including "Total Physical Memory:"

If you need to specify the user:

SYSTEMINFO /S system /U user

Solution 4

tasklist /s <system> /u <username> /p <password> for current usage systeminfo /s <system> /u <username> /p <password> for specs on system including ram.

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Comments

[loislo]

+1 -- the second command listed under the capacity line.

[David]

On XP I had to query "memlogical", and get the "TotalPhysicalMemory" value. "memorychip" doesn't seem to exist on XP.