| SYDI - Simplifying Network Documentation |
| Wednesday, 20 July 2005 by Michel Roth | |||
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So what is SYDI? SYDI is a collection of scripts to help people get started with the documentation process. What it can do is to collect information from a Windows Server (SYDI-Server) or a MS SQL Server (SYDI-SQL) or an Microsoft Exchange Organization (SYDI-Exchange) and present its findings in a MS Word document or an XML document. On the Linux side SYDI-Linux writes output to XML which can be converted to Html or the OASIS OpenDocument format. This way the process isn’t so boring since a lot of information is gathered for you, another way it helps you is that you are given a general document which gives you an idea of what could be included in your server documentation. If you feel like you don’t need everything the scripts collect there are parameters which decide what goes into the word document. So if you like the output but don’t need a particular section, like printers or services you can easily remove them. SYDI has been tested with Windows 2000 and higher, Word 2000 and higher, SQL 7.0 and higher. Get it from here.
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