Command line utility to capture system utilisation

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Is there any command line utilisation to capture CPU, memory, network,
harddisk or some of these ? Thanks, sc
 
Is there any command line utilisation to capture CPU, memory, network,
harddisk or some of these ? Thanks, sc
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Which version of Windows XP are you using? With XP Pro you can use WMIC.

John
 
Is there any command line utilisation to capture CPU, memory, network,
harddisk or some of these ? Thanks, sc
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processor

http://www.computing.net/answers/windows-2000/output-cpu-utilization-to-text-file/65928.html

typeperf "\Processor(_Total)\% Processor Time" -sc 1 > proc.txt

I'm not sure how many other processor commands you can run this way but
it looks like a lot

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http://www.mssqltips.com/tip.asp?tip=1575

As a DBA I like to take advantage of command line tools when I'm working
on performance tuning and optimizing my SQL Server databases. One of
the things I typically need to do is to collect performance data on the
server which includes CPU, memory and disk utilization as well as SQL
Server-specific data. What command line tools are available to do this?

Solution
TYPEPERF.EXE is a command line tool included with the Windows operating
system that writes performance data to the command window or to a file.
It is necessary to capture performance data whenever you are trying to
diagnose performance issues on a server. Performance data provides
information on the server's utilization of the processor, memory, and
disk, as well as SQL Server-specific performance data.

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http://www.microsoft.com/resources/...ddocs/en-us/nt_command_typeperf.mspx?mfr=true

To display processor and memory counters, type:
typeperf "\Memory\Available bytes" "\processor(_total)\% processor time"

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https://www.faultwire.com/file_detail/typeperf.exe*297.html

run typeperf -q to see a list of things that it can report on

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more reading:

http://blogs.technet.com/b/askperf/archive/2009/05/12/two-minute-drill-typeperf.aspx

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc753182(WS.10).aspx

Mike
 
Mike said:
Are you sure it requires Pro?
Yes.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb742610.aspx

Microsoft is creating a lot of good reasons to make the command prompt
in Windows XP and the Windows Server 2003 family your home for systems
management.
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XP Home is lacking of several of the command line tools available in XP
Pro and XP Pro is lacking of a lot of the tools available on Server
2003. As for your other suggestions, my understanding of the OP's post
was that he wanted to monitor from the command line, if all he wants is
to list the installed hardware then there are many built-in tools for
this, like the ones you suggested. If he wants to monitor the only one
that would work would be typeperf.

John
 
John said:
XP Home is lacking of several of the command line tools available in XP
Pro and XP Pro is lacking of a lot of the tools available on Server
2003. As for your other suggestions, my understanding of the OP's post
was that he wanted to monitor from the command line, if all he wants is
to list the installed hardware then there are many built-in tools for
this, like the ones you suggested. If he wants to monitor the only one
that would work would be typeperf.
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On second thought, I don't think that Typeperf is available on XP Home.

John
 
Thanks very much for all the links and replies.

Let me explain why I ask this question. I download/upload files when
I'm not at home. My machine has a problem going to standby so I want
to ask somebody to switch off the PC when it's done.

I thought I can monitor the Network utilisation, send the output to my
office email using bmail, and when the network utilistion goes down, I
can call home to ask them to off it.

But now, I found that the upload/download utility I use generates a
log which I can tail off the last part and email to my office email.

I've set it up already but I've not tested it at my office yet.

Thanks again for your help.
 
You're welcome.

John

Thanks very much for all the links and replies.

Let me explain why I ask this question. I download/upload files when
I'm not at home. My machine has a problem going to standby so I want
to ask somebody to switch off the PC when it's done.

I thought I can monitor the Network utilisation, send the output to my
office email using bmail, and when the network utilistion goes down, I
can call home to ask them to off it.

But now, I found that the upload/download utility I use generates a
log which I can tail off the last part and email to my office email.

I've set it up already but I've not tested it at my office yet.

Thanks again for your help.
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dingdongdingding wrote:
Let me explain why I ask this question. I download/upload files when
I'm not at home. My machine has a problem going to standby so I want
to ask somebody to switch off the PC when it's done.
I thought I can monitor the Network utilisation, send the output to my
office email using bmail, and when the network utilistion goes down, I
can call home to ask them to off it.
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I write Visual Basic 6 programs, I already have a program that monitors
download and upload rates, I can add a little code to watch for a
condition where the download rate falls below a certain rate for a
certain amount of time and then hibernates the machine. If you would
like a demo that just pops up a message instead of doing the hibernate
so you can test it, reply to me at mscir at yahoo dot com.

Mike
 
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