How to get current cpu usage as well as memory and others?

14 Dec 2006 7:14 PM

Andrew

I am using vb.net VS 2005.

can anybody point me in the direction of getting:

current cpu usage %, total proccess running at a snapshot, number of
processors.

Total memory in machine, and memory used,

total drives, drive copacity and used space.

I am trying to take snapshots of the system a few times a day and add them
to a database for processing pc server health.

I can not find any good examples in vb 2005.

can anybody help?

does anybody know how to get the windows SDK? , will that help?

15 Dec 2006 1:57 AM

Newbie Coder

Use WMI

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"Andrew" <And***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> I am using vb.net VS 2005.
>
> can anybody point me in the direction of getting:
>
> current cpu usage %, total proccess running at a snapshot, number of
> processors.
>
> Total memory in machine, and memory used,
>
> total drives, drive copacity and used space.
>
> I am trying to take snapshots of the system a few times a day and add them
> to a database for processing pc server health.
>
> I can not find any good examples in vb 2005.
>
> can anybody help?
>
> does anybody know how to get the windows SDK? , will that help?

15 Dec 2006 9:52 AM

Jens

system.environment.* should contain some of the things you're searching for,
e.g. the cpu count.

There is another class outside system that makes it very easy to read
free/used/total memory. But I don't remember it right now.

15 Dec 2006 11:47 PM

Nip

System.Diagnostics should do the job aswell

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"Jens" <J***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> system.environment.* should contain some of the things you're searching
> for,
> e.g. the cpu count.
>
> There is another class outside system that makes it very easy to read
> free/used/total memory. But I don't remember it right now.