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Free Tool to Automate Server Documentation Released

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by patrick.ogenstad

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Hello,

I have just released SYDI-Server 2.0, which is part of the Open Source SYDI Project. The goal of SYDI is to help people document their networks or servers; a secondary goal is to do an inventory.

SYDI-Server is written in vbscript, it uses WMI to collect information from Windows Servers and Clients and writes information to XML or Microsoft Word.

You can download SYDI-Server 2.0 from the SYDI website:
http://sydi.sourceforge.net

The most exiting update for this release is the script ss-xml2word.vbs. It enables you to;

1. Convert a SYDI-Server XML file to word: Useful in situations where you don?t have Word installed. On a DMZ or running a scheduled task from a server.
2. Keep your documentation updated: In combination with the XML file from SYDI-Server you can create an own file where you have the written documentation for the target system. The two files are combined to a final Word report.

I have also added support for IIS, on target computers running Windows Server 2003. In this version the script only collects the most basic settings; more will come in later versions.

I have gotten a lot of positive feedback from users of the project in the past and I believe it would be useful for your readers to know about it.

Best regards
Patrick Ogenstad
My Blog: http://ogenstad.net

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by smadison

Any chance you have have a tool which creates documentation for a Novell Netware Server?

by mohammedt

I really thank you for the tool which has saved a lot of time and helped documenting our internal servers. Keep us the good work and hope you may add the option to pull the information from multiple servers.

by kdb01

Hi, Any plans on including windows services configurations such as DNS, DHCP, AD site replication etc? (Good work for the rest!)

by hgsimp

I can certainly recommend XIA Configuration, I've been using it to automatically document my network infrastructure and it's saved me a huge amount of time and effort. The support from CENTREL Solutions http://www.centrel-solutions.com/ is superb!

by tayar77

Any chance you have have a tool which creates documentation for a Oracle Database Server?

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