Xeon Processors and how to find them

[OldDog]

Hi,

I am frequently asked to inventory servers using VbScript.
When a server has Xeon processors it reports back twice as many as it
really has.
Is there a way to identify a Xeon in WMI and then account for it's
multiple personalities?

Here is a snip of the code I use. It's part of an HTA;

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Set CompSys = objWMIService.ExecQuery("Select * from
Win32_ComputerSystem",,48)
For Each sysItem In CompSys
statval.value = statval.value & vbTab & "Manufacturer: " &
sysItem.Manufacturer & VbCrLf
If sysItem.Manufacturer = Trim("Dell Computer Corporation") Then
Set colSMBIOS = objWMIService.ExecQuery ("Select * from
Win32_SystemEnclosure")
For Each objSMBIOS in colSMBIOS
strSerial = Trim(objSMBIOS.SerialNumber)
If len(strSerial) > 1 Then
statval.value = statval.value & vbTab & "Serial Number: " &
strSerial & VbCrLf
End If
Next
End If
statval.value = statval.value & vbTab & "Model: " & sysItem.Model &
VbCrLf
statval.value = statval.value & vbTab & "NumberOfProcessors: " &
sysItem.NumberOfProcessors & VbCrLf
statval.value = statval.value & vbTab & "SystemType: " &
sysItem.SystemType & VbCrLf
statval.value = statval.value & vbTab & "TotalPhysicalMemory: " &
sysItem.TotalPhysicalMemory & VbCrLf & VbCrLf
Next

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[Logan Patrick Bales]

I would use WIN32_Processor and look for the occurance of Xeon in the Name
property. You will most likely need to refine it to look at the
MaxClockSpeed property as well and discard any processors that have a speed
under a certain threshhold in case you have any really old Xeon machines in
production use as I am guessing that the reason that the Xeons you have are
showing up twice is that they are either HT or Dual-Core chips. I am not
sure when Intel started making Xeon chips with HT or 2xCore, so you would
have to research that. There are other properties that you could look at,
like Caption.

Also, it might be worth looking at the DeviceID property. I would say this
could be used to exclude extra processors but not sure how it acts in SMP,
HT and Dual Core situations and I have no access to such machines right now
(it's 10 at night and I am at home, not my data center).

HTH
Logan

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