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How to get the CPU utilization of remote machine from command prompt

Use below command if you want to get the CPU utilization of remote machine from command prompt. It’s very useful if you don’t want to spend time in logging on to the server to verify the stats. Needless to say, replace RemoteMachine with your remote machine name in below command.

typeperf “\RemoteMachineprocessor(_Total)% Processor Time”

Refer to my old article to know more about typeperf

Happy Learning…,
Sitaram Pamarthi

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  • iresha September 30, 2009, 3:53 pm

    You can also very easily build your own performance monitor in C++

    Windows C++ Get CPU and Memory Utilisation With Performance Counters

  • Ramesh Kumar November 16, 2009, 12:30 pm

    Hi,
    Using the command provided, it is possible to get data from Local machine only.

    But when tried with remote machine, it returns following error:
    Error: No valid counters.

    Command used:
    typeperf “\Process(*)% Processor Time” -sc 1

    Please help me out in this issue.

    • admin November 21, 2009, 10:52 pm

      Hey Ramesh,

      Let’s isolate the problem this way. Execute this command on the remote machine locally and see if it returns any thing. If the comman works fine locally, then we have some thing to troubleshoot with remote connection.

      Make you sure that you are having admin rights on remote machine while running this command. A domain admin is preferred for ideal results.

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  • Mark September 14, 2011, 7:38 pm

    Is there a way to run these queries using SQL XP command shell to remotley collect data within SQL server Queries? And is there an easy way to pass alternative credentials to be used?

    • Sitaram Pamarthi September 16, 2011, 1:09 pm

      Mark, If you are running SQL 2008, then you can use a powershell script instead of XP Command shell. I guess whatever the logging you are using through XP shell can be converted into powershell code. Alternative is, to write a VB script that can query remote WMI to get current CPU utilization.

      I recently wrote a PowerShell script that queries CPU utilization using WMI (http://techibee.com/powershell/get-cpu-utilization-of-a-computer-using-powershell/996). You can convert into VBScript.

      Let me know if you need any help here.

      • Steve F. April 14, 2016, 9:34 pm

        I want to write a powershell script that will run on one machine and retrieve information on CPU usage from two remote machines. When the CPU usages goes, lets say over 20% I want to know what the first 10 highest processes are running and send that information to a text file on the machine that initiated the retrieval command. I would like the script to run every 5 minutes or so for 30 minutes. I have a Windows Server 2012 VM, a Windows 8.1 VM and a Windows 10 VM machine running. Both 8.1 and 10 clients are on my domain on the Server 2012. Can you help me? Thank you! Steve

  • Pavan April 27, 2012, 10:26 am

    I have tried but it is telling that invalid command.
    Can anyone tell me how to view the cpu and memory load of a remote machine connected in the network.

  • Sitaram Pamarthi May 4, 2012, 4:58 pm