DIMM Report on Servers

I needed to verify that all my mailbox servers all had 80GB ram installed. I was tempted to simply remote to each server and review the BGInfo. After a quick search, I found this post by Jesse Hamrick on Powershell Pro! The script breaks down the WMI class to return the # of DIMM slots, which have chips installed and the capacity of each. This was great, but the results echo'd directly back to the screen.

From this, I tweaked the script to make it a bit more useful for my project. I added a command-line variable so that I don't have to type in each name via a read-host. Then I converted the output format so that I would return a variable instead.

<#
.SYNOPSIS
   Report-RAM.PS1 - Returns a DIMM report on the remote server. 
.DESCRIPTION
   Uses WMI to read PhysicalMemory and PhysicalMemoryArray varia
.PARAMETER 
   Name of the remote maching you want to query. Use "." for local PC. 

.EXAMPLE 
 .\Report-Ram.ps1 -ComputerName "."

       

ComputerName        : .
AvailableDIMMCount  : 4
Slots               : {@{Capacity=4294967296; DeviceLocator=DIMM3}, @{Capacity=4294967296; DeviceLocator=DIMM1}}
InstalledCapacity   : 8589934592
InstalledCapacityGB : 8
InstalledDIMMCount  : 2


.REFERENCE
    http://www.powershellpro.com/dimm-witt/200/
#>


[CmdLetBinding()]
param(
 [parameter(Mandatory=$true)]
 [String]$ComputerName
)

$RAMSummary = New-Object -TypeName PSObject 
$RAMSummary | Add-Member -Name "ComputerName" -MemberType NoteProperty -Value $ComputerName 
$colSlots = Get-WmiObject -Class "win32_PhysicalMemoryArray" -namespace "root\CIMV2" -computerName $ComputerName
$colRAM = Get-WmiObject -Class "win32_PhysicalMemory" -namespace "root\CIMV2" -computerName $ComputerName
 
$TotalSlots = 0
Foreach ($objSlot In $colSlots){
     #"Total Number of DIMM Slots: " + $objSlot.MemoryDevices
  $TotalSlots += $objSlot.MemoryDevices
 }
 $RAMSummary | Add-Member -Name "AvailableDIMMCount" -MemberType NoteProperty -Value $TotalSlots
 
 $InstalledRam = 0
 $ChipCount = 0
 $Slots = @()
 Foreach ($objRAM In $colRAM) {  
  $Slot = New-Object -TypeName PSObject 
 $Slot | Add-Member -Name "Capacity" -MemberType NoteProperty -Value $objRAM.Capacity 
 $Slot | Add-Member -Name "DeviceLocator" -MemberType NoteProperty -Value $objRAM.DeviceLocator
 $Slots += $Slot
     #"Memory Installed: " + $objRAM.DeviceLocator
  $InstalledRam += $objRAM.Capacity
  $ChipCount += 1
     #"Memory Size: " + ($objRAM.Capacity / 1GB) + " GB"
 }
$RAMSummary | Add-Member -Name "Slots" -MemberType NoteProperty -Value $Slots
$RAMSummary | Add-Member -Name "InstalledCapacity" -MemberType NoteProperty -Value $InstalledRam
$RAMSummary | Add-Member -Name "InstalledCapacityGB" -MemberType NoteProperty -Value ($InstalledRam /1GB)
$RAMSummary | Add-Member -Name "InstalledDIMMCount" -MemberType NoteProperty -Value $ChipCount 

Return $RAMSummary

For my purposes, I ran it against all my mailbox servers. So I did something like:

$RamReport = get-mailboxserver | %{.\report-RAM.ps1 $_.Name}
$RamReport | ?{$_.InstalledCapacity -lt 80GB} | Select ComputerName,InstalledCapacityGB | export-CSV "c:\report.csv"