Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 PowerShell Cookbook - Second Edition

Monitoring memory utilization

To retrieve memory information from local and remote computers using PowerShell, we can use WMI, or query performance counters. In this recipe, you'll learn a few techniques that can be used to monitor memory utilization using the Get-WmiObject cmdlet.

How to do it...

1. To gather memory utilization with WMI, we need to query two separate classes:

   $OS = Get-WmiObject Win32_OperatingSystem
   $CS = Get-WmiObject Win32_ComputerSystem
   

2. Next, we can access the free and total physical memory from each object:
   
3. To convert the values to gigabytes, we need to use the mb and gb multipliers:

Now we can easily see that the local system has ...