CPU WMI senser discover wrong number of cores

Dear Daniel

This is one of the intricacies with WMI. Since the WMI query is performed by a 32 bit application (the PRTG probe service always runs in 32 bit mode) the WMI interface only reports hardware parameters supported by a 32 bit Windows. This limits the detection to 4 GB of RAM and 32 CPU cores.

We are still looking for ways around this, but there is no fix in the foreseeable future.

Thanks Arne.

I find that PRTG can monitoring that server with 128GB RAM (not only 4GB). Do I miss understanding your meaning? Thanks.

I would ask one more question.

Since this kind of WMI sensors limitation will not show any "error" message, maybe there is existing some other sensors have similar limitation. Would you list such kind of sensors? Then I can check manually for those sensors.

Thanks.

Dear Daniel

We don't have such list. For many sensors, PRTG uses both WMI and Performance Counters (usually Performance Counters first, if that fails, WMI.) Depending on the technology used, a sensor can return different results in certain cases.

Usually the sensor results are reliable, there are however some limitations regarding unusual configurations like a computer with 48 CPU cores. PRTG is limited to the interface providing the monitoring data.

Thanks Arne for your information.

Anyway we find that the server can be monitoring 48 CPU by using SNMP CPU sensor. So, maybe we will use SNMP. Thanks for your help.