Windows get CPU usage command

Searched high and low for a command to get CPU usage on the internet to no avail. From a DOS command prompt (Windows server 2003) CPU usage for all nodes:

WMIC CPU GET LoadPercentage

SNMP was my other alternative, but not all deployments would have this service.

This does not aggregate the values, nor does it easily feed into a batch file. For that I use a FOR loop.

FOR /F "delims= " %%i in ('WMIC CPU GET LoadPercentage') do @echo %%i

Significant Revisions

  • May 6th, 2024 Converted to jekyll markdown format and copied to personal site
  • Nov 16th, 2010 Originally published on txcowboycoder wordpress site1

Footnotes

  1. Initial md Generated using https://github.com/jsr6720/wordpress-html-scraper-to-md

    Original Wordpress categories: [‘DOS’]

    Original Wordpress tags: “DOS”, “CPU”, “DOS CPU usage”, “utilization” ↩