The following VBS scripts will allow you to remotely connect to a computer on your network to collect the monitor details.
It retrieves the:
- Instance name
- Manufacture name
- User friendly name (often contains the monitor’s model name)
- Serial number
- Week of manufacture
- Year of manufacture
There are two versions of the script available, one for a single computer and one for a list of computers.
Both can be downloaded below.
Get monitor serial number for a single computer
Get Monitor Info – remotely.vbs
When you run the script it will prompt for the remote computer name:
After entering the remote computer name it will return the information on all attached monitors.
For example:
Get monitor serial number for a list of computers
VBS – Get Monitor Serial Number Remotely – Machine List.zip
Note – Microsoft Excel must be installed on the computer to run this script.
- After downloading and extracting the ZIP file you will find two files,
- MachineList.txt – which holds the list of computers to get the serial numbers from, each computer name needs to be on a new line
- Get_Monitor Info – remotely (MachineList).vbs – the script to run
- Update MachineList with the list of computers
- Run ‘Get_Monitor Info – remotely (MachineList).vbs’
- Microsoft Excel will load and begin to add the header row then the details of each computer
- If a computer is online (available on the network) its details will be recorded then it is removed from MachineList.txt
- If a computer is offline it is marked as ‘Offline’ in the excel document and it remains in MachineList, so you can run the script later when the computer is online.
This is great! Thank you so much for sharing this. Saved our team many hours of hard work!
The wrong numbers serial numbers were returned. I turned my monitors around to check. Bummer! We could really use a script that works as we have hundreds of monitors. 🙁
Hey Staci – have you found it’s not working with a particular combination? Operating system, monitor make and model, particular video card? I remember when I first used this script we actually found that our manufacture hadn’t been writing the correct serial number into the monitors software ! It might be worth using the monitors on screen menu to check what the ‘software’ serial number is compared to the one on the sticker?
Hi, unfortunately the link for VSB – Get Monitor Serial Number Remotely – Machine List.zip is broken. Pls can you fix it?
Hey Chris, I think I broke the link 🙁 I was setting hot link protection to try stopping people stealing my bandwidth and I didnt do it right. Try again or use this link. https://www.itsupportguides.com/downloads/VSB%20-%20Get%20Monitor%20Serial%20Number%20Remotely%20-%20Machine%20List.zip
Thank you for the quick response and for the great VBS-Script. The link works now
Hi, can i get vbscript to get all HW . HDD zise , Ram size , number or RAM installed,
MAC Address , Operating System , HD Free Space [GB], HD Used Space [GB], CPU Speed, USB devices installed, HD S/N, HD Model, ect..
Yeah, this is great! It has saved me re-checking over more than 350 devices and their monitors!
This is the most awesome thing i have ever seen, you just saved me days worth of work, thanks a TON!