<# .SYNOPSIS This powershell function gets information about the monitors attached to any computer. It uses EDID information provided by WMI. If this value is not specified it pulls the monitors of the computer that the script is being run on. .DESCRIPTION The function begins by looping through each computer specified. For each computer it gets a litst of monitors. It then gets all of the necessary data from each monitor object and converts and cleans the data and places it in a custom PSObject. It then adds the data to an array. At the end the array is displayed. .PARAMETER ComputerName Use this to specify the computer(s) which you'd like to retrieve information about monitors from. .EXAMPLE PS C:/> Get-Monitor.ps1 -ComputerName SSL1-F1102-1G2Z Manufacturer Model SerialNumber AttachedComputer ------------ ----- ------------ ---------------- HP HP E241i CN12345678 SSL1-F1102-1G2Z HP HP E241i CN91234567 SSL1-F1102-1G2Z HP HP E241i CN89123456 SSL1-F1102-1G2Z .EXAMPLE PS C:/> $Computers = @("SSL7-F108F-9D4Z","SSL1-F1102-1G2Z","SSA7-F1071-0T7F") PS C:/> Get-Monitor.ps1 -ComputerName $Computers Manufacturer Model SerialNumber AttachedComputer ------------ ----- ------------ ---------------- HP HP LA2405x CN12345678 SSL7-F108F-9D4Z HP HP E241i CN91234567 SSL1-F1102-1G2Z HP HP E241i CN89123456 SSL1-F1102-1G2Z HP HP E241i CN78912345 SSL1-F1102-1G2Z HP HP ZR22w CN67891234 SSA7-F1071-0T7F #> [CmdletBinding()] PARAM ( [Parameter(ValueFromPipeline = $True, ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName = $True)] [String[]]$ComputerName = $env:ComputerName ) #List of Manufacture Codes that could be pulled from WMI and their respective full names. Used for translating later down. $ManufacturerHash = @{ "AAC" = "AcerView"; "ACR" = "Acer"; "AOC" = "AOC"; "AIC" = "AG Neovo"; "APP" = "Apple Computer"; "AST" = "AST Research"; "AUO" = "Asus"; "BNQ" = "BenQ"; "CMO" = "Acer"; "CPL" = "Compal"; "CPQ" = "Compaq"; "CPT" = "Chunghwa Pciture Tubes, Ltd."; "CTX" = "CTX"; "DEC" = "DEC"; "DEL" = "Dell"; "DPC" = "Delta"; "DWE" = "Daewoo"; "EIZ" = "EIZO"; "ELS" = "ELSA"; "ENC" = "EIZO"; "EPI" = "Envision"; "FCM" = "Funai"; "FUJ" = "Fujitsu"; "FUS" = "Fujitsu-Siemens"; "GSM" = "LG Electronics"; "GWY" = "Gateway 2000"; "HEI" = "Hyundai"; "HIT" = "Hyundai"; "HSL" = "Hansol"; "HTC" = "Hitachi/Nissei"; "HWP" = "HP"; "IBM" = "IBM"; "ICL" = "Fujitsu ICL"; "IVM" = "Iiyama"; "KDS" = "Korea Data Systems"; "LEN" = "Lenovo"; "LGD" = "Asus"; "LPL" = "Fujitsu"; "MAX" = "Belinea"; "MEI" = "Panasonic"; "MEL" = "Mitsubishi Electronics"; "MS_" = "Panasonic"; "NAN" = "Nanao"; "NEC" = "NEC"; "NOK" = "Nokia Data"; "NVD" = "Fujitsu"; "OPT" = "Optoma"; "PHL" = "Philips"; "REL" = "Relisys"; "SAN" = "Samsung"; "SAM" = "Samsung"; "SBI" = "Smarttech"; "SGI" = "SGI"; "SNY" = "Sony"; "SRC" = "Shamrock"; "SUN" = "Sun Microsystems"; "SEC" = "Hewlett-Packard"; "TAT" = "Tatung"; "TOS" = "Toshiba"; "TSB" = "Toshiba"; "VSC" = "ViewSonic"; "ZCM" = "Zenith"; "UNK" = "Unknown"; "_YV" = "Fujitsu"; } #Takes each computer specified and runs the following code: ForEach ($Computer in $ComputerName) { #Grabs the Monitor objects from WMI $Monitors = Get-WmiObject -Namespace "root\WMI" -Class "WMIMonitorID" -ComputerName $Computer -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue #Creates an empty array to hold the data $Monitor_Array = @() #Takes each monitor object found and runs the following code: ForEach ($Monitor in $Monitors) { #Grabs respective data and converts it from ASCII encoding and removes any trailing ASCII null values If ([System.Text.Encoding]::ASCII.GetString($Monitor.UserFriendlyName) -ne $null) { $Mon_Model = ([System.Text.Encoding]::ASCII.GetString($Monitor.UserFriendlyName)).Replace("$([char]0x0000)", "") } else { $Mon_Model = $null } $Mon_Serial_Number = ([System.Text.Encoding]::ASCII.GetString($Monitor.SerialNumberID)).Replace("$([char]0x0000)", "") $Mon_Attached_Computer = ($Monitor.PSComputerName).Replace("$([char]0x0000)", "") $Mon_Manufacturer = ([System.Text.Encoding]::ASCII.GetString($Monitor.ManufacturerName)).Replace("$([char]0x0000)", "") #Filters out "non monitors". Place any of your own filters here. These two are all-in-one computers with built in displays. I don't need the info from these. If ($Mon_Model -like "*800 AIO*" -or $Mon_Model -like "*8300 AiO*") { Break } #Sets a friendly name based on the hash table above. If no entry found sets it to the original 3 character code $Mon_Manufacturer_Friendly = $ManufacturerHash.$Mon_Manufacturer If ($Mon_Manufacturer_Friendly -eq $null) { $Mon_Manufacturer_Friendly = $Mon_Manufacturer } #Creates a custom monitor object and fills it with 4 NoteProperty members and the respective data $Monitor_Obj = [PSCustomObject]@{ Manufacturer = $Mon_Manufacturer_Friendly Model = $Mon_Model SerialNumber = $Mon_Serial_Number AttachedComputer = $Mon_Attached_Computer } #Appends the object to the array $Monitor_Array += $Monitor_Obj } #End ForEach Monitor #Outputs the Array $Monitor_Array } #End ForEach Computer