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Microsoft Exchange 2010 PowerShell Cookbook
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Microsoft Exchange 2010 PowerShell Cookbook

by Mike Pfeiffer
July 2011
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
480 pages
11h 54m
English
Packt Publishing
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Checking CPU utilization

One of the best ways to monitor CPU utilization with PowerShell is by querying performance counters. We can also get this information using WMI. In this recipe, you'll learn a few techniques that can be used to monitor CPU utilization using the Get-Counterand Get-WmiObject cmdlets.

How to do it...

  1. To get an idea of the current CPU utilization for a server, we can gather data for the Processor(_Total)\% Processor Time performance counter:
    Get-Counter "\Processor(_Total)\% Processor Time" -Continuous

    This would continuously output the total utilization across each CPU, as shown:

    How to do it...
  2. In addition, we can use the Win32_Processor class ...
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