CPU Count / Core Count Discovery Issue

[ameertalha]

Discovery of a Windows 2003 Enterprise server returned incorrect CPU Count (4) and did not return the CPU Core Count, even though I got the results shown below when I ran a Custom probe on the same server with the command :

Get-CimInstance -ClassName 'Win32_Processor' `

      | Select-Object -Property 'DeviceID', 'Name', 'NumberOfCores';

I get the same result when i run a WMI command instead of the CIM command.

Why is Discovery populating the CI form with CPU Count 4 when the server actually contains 2 processors?

[Dave Mau]

Is this a VM or a physical server?

[ameertalha]

It's a virtual machine

[tim_broberg]

Check the ecc_queue input record for that probe.

Microsoft is creative with CPU counts at times.

[Dave Ainsworth]

Hi Ameer,

I have seen this before with discovery but it was found to be the following problem in Windows 2003:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/932370/the-number-of-physical-hyperthreading-enabled-proces...

If this is the issue, there is a hotfix that needs to be installed on the Windows 2003 servers.

Regards,

Dave