SYDI
Network Documentation Made Easy
Limiting the Length of a SYDI Report
Running SYDI-Server using default settings usually generates a Word document somewhere between 20 and 40 pages. While some people hunger for that much information, others are overwhelmed by the details. You might feel that some of the information is irrelevant to your network documentation. If your server documentation template doesn't include the …
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How to Use SYDI Server with the Windows XP Firewall
If you're able to run SYDI locally from a computer but you're not able to reach it over the network. Perhaps with a 462 -- The remote server machine does not exist or is unavailable error, this note should interest you. SYDI relies on WMI and the 462 is an error code which has been returned from WMI. You will see this error in two instances, the …
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Spanish Translation for SYDI-Server
SYDI-Server collects information through WMI queries and can write a report to XML or Word, which can be used as a server documentation template or as a starting point for your network documentation. When writing output to XML you can use the ss-xml2word.vbs script in order to create a Word file in your language. This is assuming there is a …
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Server Documentation Template
Not many system administrators purr like a cat when tasked with network documentation. Starting off from scratch doesn't make things much better. It's perfectly natural to consult a guide if you're about to do something you don't do often. Part of the network documentation project is deciding what you need to include in the final documents. Instead …
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