On my server, that spits out LOGICAL CPU's, not physical  (nasty
hyperthreading)...

-----Original Message-----
From: Stapleton, Mark [mailto:mark.stapleton AT BERBEE DOT COM]
Sent: Friday, June 04, 2004 2:25 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: any one ever find a utility or tool to count CPUs on Wintel?


From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Lisa Laughlin
>I am gearing up for licensing renewals, and wondered if IBM/Tivoli (or
>anyone else for that matter) ever came up with a tool to count physical
>CPUs on NT/2000 servers?

Go to a command-line window. Type

        set n

and hit Enter. Parse the results for the last character.

It's one of a number of stupid Windows tricks I've run across.

--
Mark Stapleton